Mobile Quest Summer Camp 2010

For the second year in a row, Quest to Learn's founding partner this summer, the Institute of Play, presented Mobile Learning Institute Mobile Quest. A free game design camp where young people learned the fundamentals of games and design using Nokia N95 smart phones.

During Mobile Quest, young people take on the role of game designers: playing, analyzing and creating games for their peers to play. Working with professional game designers, creative artists and mobile technologists, Mobile Questers experienced first-hand how to turn great ideas into great games. Creating board games and big games that took place in Washington Square Park, Mobile Questers told stories with pictures and videos, explored the city, mobile technologies and location-based games.

During Mobile Quest, you’ll use smart phones, which are phones that know a lot—they take pictures, record video and can even show you where you are on a map. We’ll use the phones to make games about the city and talk about what it means to collect pictures, texts, and other information on our phones. We'll discuss important questions like: Whose information is it? Where does the information go?

If you’d like to work and play hard this summer, register for Mobile Quest now. Mobile Quest is free of charge and no technology or game design experience is needed. Just curiosity and excitement to learn new things, all with a special Mobile Quest twist!

Check-out all of the fun we had last summer during Mobile Quest 2009!

Mobile Learning Institute Mobile Quest Summer Camp is presented in partnership with the Pearson Foundation, Nokia, Parsons The New School for Design and the Institute of Play.