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Playful Mobile Messages: A Concept With Potential

by Russell Shaw

February 12, 2008 at 9:26 am · Filed under Mobile messaging 2.0, mobile social networking, Messaging, Games

That’s Trail Messenger, is a virtual dot-dropper that lets people expressive perform and discover messages by walking around and â€˜connecting the dots.â€™

“Interaction designer” Junu Joseph Yang sends along a video of Trail Messenger, based on a ‘Mobile Plassages’ (Playful Mobile Messages) social game experience and platform he designed for a senior college project.

The concept uses turn-based messaging combined with simple sensors to create a social game experience. Junu feels it blurs the boundaries between play and communication which, as Junu tells us he thinks, has much to do with the success of SMS, and the future of mobile messaging.

Junu feels this “playful messaging enabled by cal part of why SMS has been so successful. I would love to have a chance to talk to someone about the project; and how ‘playful messaging’ will really be the future of mobile messaging.

You can find an example of the project here.

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Ben Templeton wrote @ February 13th, 2008 at 6:19 am

This project seems quite similar to something we’re doing at Thought Den. it’s called Happy Packages and the idea is to encourage people to leave playful messages around the city. The project is research based so if anyone has any interesting ideas to share please get in touch!

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