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Capture the Tagan NFC-based Urban Game

powered by touchatagAntwerp, August 2009

By Derk Humblet & the touchatag team


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All Rights Reserved Alcatel-Lucent 20092 | Touchatag |August 2009

Context:touchatag NFC urban game challenge in cooperation with Mobilkom A1


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Capture the Tagan NFC-based Urban Game, powered by touchatag

ConceptAdapted from classic game Capture the Flaghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag

OverviewEach of two teams, red & green, is assigned aflaga set location marked by an NFC tag

Several additional neutral node tags arelocated around designated play space

Goal: Locate and capture the other teams tagbefore your own teams tag is captured

But that is possible only after your team has

captured enough neutral tags


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Capture the TagSetup

ParticipantsTeam GreenTeam Red2 referees

Each team getsOne or more NFC phones

One map of the urban area (Antwerp,Belgium)

Starting PointReferee gives a short briefing beforegame beginsEach teams starts from the location oftheir teams tag


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Capture the TagGame Play

All nodes are initially hiddenPlayers only know the location of theirown teams tag

Find and capture neutral nodesEach node has a unique IDUses teams NFC phone to claim a node

Claimed nodes can be reclaimed by otherteam

WinningWhen a team claims enough neutralnodes, the location of other teams flagis revealedFirst team to scan the other teams tagand correctly answer the question wins!


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Capture the TagNeutral Nodes

NodesEach is an NFC tag located at a fixedpoint somewhere in the city

To claim a node1. Scan with NFC-phone2. Phone prompts team with a question.

Correct answer captures node and possiblyreveals clue hint to other hidden nodesIncorrect answer reveals location of thenode to opposing team (by text message),and forbids team from attempting tocapture this node again for a set timeperiod


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Capture the TagGame Play Scenarios

When Team Red captures a neutral nodeTeam Green gets text message that Red hascaptured a node

When Team Red claims a node that isalready claimed by Team Green

Team Green gets text message telling whichnode Team Red has claimed

When Team Red captures the flagTeam Green gets text message telling themthat Team Red has won the game


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Result

We played with 8 people, 2 teams of 4 people1 NFC phone per 2 peopleThe game lasted just over 1 hourGreat team building event as well (as far asthis is needed in the touchatag team )


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