# BotFighters > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/BotFighters > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/BotFighters.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BotFighters > Source revision: 1329558058 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|2001 video game}} {{Use American English|date=June 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox video game | image = Botfighers logo.jpg | developer = It's Alive Mobile Games AB! | publisher = | engine = | series = | platforms = [Mobile phone](/source/Mobile_phone) ([SMS](/source/SMS)) | released = {{ubl|{{Video game release|EU|March 14, 2001|}}}} | genre = | director = | producer = | designer = | programmer = | artist = | composer = |caption = |alt = }}'''BotFighters''' is a [location-based mobile game](/source/location-based_mobile_game) and a [pervasive game](/source/pervasive_game), developed by It's Alive Mobile Games AB! (acquired by Digiment in 2007) designed to be a [MMORPG](/source/MMORPG) played in an urban environment. It was possibly the world's first commercial location-based game. It was first released in [Sweden](/source/Sweden) on 14 March 2001, and later in [Russia](/source/Russia), [Finland](/source/Finland), [Ireland](/source/Ireland) and [China](/source/China).[http://www.laois-nationalist.ie/news/story.asp?j=3057 Laois Nationalist: Mobile could be playing an expensive game] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811183416/http://www.laois-nationalist.ie/news/story.asp?j=3057 |date=August 11, 2007}} In 2002, it was awarded with an [Award of Distinction](/source/Award_of_Distinction), Net Vision category in the [Prix Ars Electronica](/source/Prix_Ars_Electronica).[http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=11697 Ars Electronica Archive] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021014415/http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=11697 |date=October 21, 2006}} The mission of the game was to locate and destroy other players. Each player was represented in the game as a [robot](/source/robot) warrior. Successful battles were rewarded with money which could be traded in, via a website, for armor upgrades and other features for the player's robot. The game was temporally expansive, because there were no safe zones or timeouts; players were always playing. The likeness of the game has been compared to that of [Paintball](/source/Paintball). The game is no longer playable. ==Gameplay== ''BotFighters'' was a [location-based mobile game](/source/location-based_mobile_game) and a [pervasive game](/source/pervasive_game), that made use of the [positioning technology](/source/positioning_technology) of a [mobile phone](/source/mobile_phone) in playing the game. ==See also== * [Location-based mobile game](/source/Location-based_mobile_game) * [Alternate reality game](/source/Alternate_reality_game) * [Location-based service](/source/Location-based_service) * [Sentient computing](/source/Sentient_computing) * [Ubiquitous computing](/source/Ubiquitous_computing) ==References== {{Citation | editor1-last= von Borries | editor1-first= Friedrich | editor2-last= Walz | editor2-first= Steffen P. | editor3-last= Böttger | editor3-first= Matthias | title = Space Time Play | place = Basel, Boston, Berlin | publisher = Birkhäuser Verlag AG | year = 2007 | chapter = BotFighters: A Game That Surrounds You | pages = 226–227 | language = | chapter-url = http://spacetimeplay.org | isbn = 978-3-7643-8414-2}} {{cite book | doi = 10.1201/9780080889795 | first1= Markus | last1 = Montola | first2= Jaakko | last2= Stenros | first3 = Annika | last3= Waern | title = Pervasive Games. Theory and Design. Experiences on the Boundary Between Life and Play. | publisher = Morgan Kaufmann Publishers | year= 2009 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Yk4CCx6UyIIC&q=Pervasive+Games.+Theory+and+Design | isbn = 978-0-1237-4853-9 | access-date = October 18, 2013}} {{cite web | title = It's Alive Mobile Games AB | url = http://www.itsalive.com | access-date = 2013-10-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050207084809/http://www.itsalive.com/page.asp | archive-date = 2005-02-07}} {{cite web | title = Digiment | url = http://www.digiment.com/ | access-date = 2013-10-18 | year = 2007 | archive-date = 24 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180924100132/https://www.digiment.com/ | url-status = dead }} {{cite thesis | last = Oppermann | first = Leif | title = Facilitating the development of location-based experiences | publisher = University of Nottingham | year=2009 | url = http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14215/ | id = {{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.508291}} | oclc = 757085363 | degree = PhD}} {{free access}} {{cite web | last1 = Dennis | first1 = Tony | title = Botfighters - a new Russian addiction | url = https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1005392/botfighters---a-new-russian-addiction | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091213070152/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1005392/botfighters---a-new-russian-addiction | url-status = unfit | archive-date = 13 December 2009 | website = The Inquirer | publisher = Breakthrough Publishing Ltd. | access-date = 18 October 2013 | date = 21 October 2003 }}{{cite book | last1=Gordon | first1=Eric | last2=Silva | first2=Adriana de Souza e | title=Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World | date=2011 | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | isbn=978-1-4443-4065-5 | page=[https://archive.org/details/netlocalitywhylo0000gord/page/67 67] | edition=1. | url=https://archive.org/details/netlocalitywhylo0000gord | url-access=registration | quote=BotFighters -encyclopedia -wikipedia. | accessdate=27 June 2019 | language=en}} {{cite web |last1=Dodson |first1=Sean |title=Ready, aim, text |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/aug/15/electronicgoods.games |website=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) |publisher=[Guardian News & Media Limited](/source/Guardian_News_%26_Media_Limited) |accessdate=27 June 2019 |date=15 August 2002}} ==External links== * [http://www.gamespot.com/mobile/action/botfighters/ BotFighters] on [GameSpot](/source/GameSpot) * [https://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2002/02/50205 Have Cell Phone, Will Shoot] – article on BotFighters and other location-based games from ''Wired'' * [https://www.theguardian.com/internetnews/story/0,7369,774494,00.html Ready, aim, text] – article on BotFighters from ''The Guardian'' Category:2001 video games Category:J2ME games Category:Java platform games Category:Location-based games Category:Video games developed in Sweden {{videogame-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [BotFighters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BotFighters) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BotFighters?action=history)). 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