Information
Technology
Hardware
Any NTT DoCoMo mobile phones series (Japan, 1999 -)Interface
Any NTT DoCoMo mobile phones series (Japan, 1999 -)Software
1) Server side daemon with the IKI-IKI software2) IKI-IKI Phone app written in C-HTML with NTT DoCoMo iMode mobile Internet api
Descriptions & Essays
IKI-IKI Phone is a multi-user, networked Artificial Life (=
Alife) art game for the I-mode mobile phones. In this sys-
tem, subscribed users can create Artificial Life creatures (=
IKI-IKI pets), interact with these pets, feed them, take care of
them, and evolve them. Networked users can also share their
pets with other mobile phones users, trade them, watch them
compete against each other, become friends with each other,
create offspring and develop an IKI-IKI pet society. Users
can also start communicating with each other through their
shared pets.
Literature
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau and Robert Lopez-Gulliver and Mika Satomi. »IKI-IKI Phone - A Multi-user Alife Art Game for Mobile Phones.« In Cast01 - Living in Mixed Realities Conference Proceedings, edited by Frauenhofer Institute, 113-117. Bonn: Frauenhofer Institute, 2001.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau and Roberto Lopez-Gulliver. »IKI-IKI Phone: a Multi-user Alife Art Game for Mobile Phones.« In IEEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2001), Conference Proceedings, edited by . Tokyo: 2001.
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