ARIS Game

Cassie Hall

Nate Pond

Rachel Schmidt

After downloading the ARIS app and sifting through a few different “games”, we decided to try out the campus tour one. We picked this game because the three of us are sophomores that lived on the southeast side last year, we figured we could use a campus tour to see if there is anything we haven’t seen or known about our campus yet. At first we were really confused just because we expected it to be just like any typical game played on an iPhone, but to our surprise it wasn’t. Eventually we figured out that we did actually have to physically walk to locations for this “game”.

This game did not have the common features that we commonly associate with games such as a reward system for completing tasks and quite frankly, not being stationary while playing is a completely different feel. The “game” didn’t feel like the type of games we are used to playing on our smartphones. Essentially we walked around campus as we were sent to different locations to complete a full tour. While this was a different experience than most games, it was still interesting in the sense that we still had objectives to complete. We actually had to walk to locations in the game, and then used our GPS location on our phone to prove that we were actually completing the tasks throughout the game. The downside of this game was the fact that winter has arrived here on campus and it was very cold. While I wouldn’t normally recommend this game to those who are looking for a typical, time-killing game, it is a nice change of pace. It was also interesting in the sense that it involved our campus, which normal games aren’t usually that individualized.