Narrative design for Rediscovering Daereungwon: A location-based augmented reality game

Abstract

Rediscovering Daereungwon is a location-based Augmented Reality(AR) mobile game application that aims to enrich the experience of navigating Daereungwon, a Korean cultural heritage site consisting of various royal tombs from the Silla dynasty. In this paper, a framework binding 3 main PoIs with distinctive features into a successive, cohesive, and immersive narrative is introduced. It appropriates and combines the Memorable Experience Design(MED) Framework and the Interest Curve proposed by Bulencea and Egger (2015) to guide tourists through Daereungwon, while game challenges and rewards in the form of augmented objects and interactions provide them with information on the PoIs and the site of Daereungwon as a whole.