Sherlock Holmes Search For Clues Analysis

“Sherlock Holmes: Search for clues” is a pervasive game, and the concept of the game is that each gamer will become a detective and try to find all the clues in our environment in order to solve the case. First, players will be given a story based on their current location. Every location has different storyline and different clues that needed to be found. The clues are hidden in all of the places near them, and they need to walk through the cities to get these clues and solve the problem. However, not everything users find in the environment are clues. Sometimes people might click on a box that does not have anything in it. There will be a friend system, team system, experience and currency system in the game as well. Every function will be introduced in the following paragraphs. The game is using GPS in order to locate player’s current location. There is a map show on the screen and indicates your current location and the other cities. The bright sections of the map are the cities you already completed or trying to complete. The darker sections like grey areas are the areas that you haven’t been to. When the players click on one of the sections, it will show a clue list on the screen to tell you which clues you had already found, and which you have not find yet. The clue list is same as the map in the …show more content…
According to the enframing part of the article “Cow Clicker” by Ian Bogost and in this scenario, friends have become more like resources rather than really friends. For instance, gamers in the game could get some benefits from other players by gift sending or working in the same team. The playing actions of the players is not only can benefit other players but also the data they produced can benefit the game developers. In addition, when players find a box at the corner of