GeoGuild: Location-Based Framework for Mobile Games

Smartphones´ performance is in sustained growth, and their geolocation capabilities bring opportunities for developers to explore new aspects of social gaming. We propose a multiplatform framework that can give a social side to a wide range of mobile games. The framework is independent of the game and provides different location-based tools, such as guilds, territories management and geolocated events. Our set of tools integrates user geo-position on real world maps, allowing the players to team up and conquer territories in their vicinity. The uniqueness of our framework is the fact that it can turn a simple game into a full social experience, whilst combining the real and the virtual world. In this paper we provide an overview of our platform and show how well-established one-on-one games can be rethought as social multiplayer games.