Building a Community of Audio Game Designers - Towards an Online Audio Game Editor

Urbanek, Michael; Güldenpfennig, Florian; Schrempf, Manuel T.

doi:10.1145/3197391.3205431

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“…In an evaluation it was shown that immersion between the two groups were similar except for control that was harder for visually disabled [33]. Urbanek [34] created a web-based game development tool for audio games, which also serves as a platform for building a community of audio game designers, with the goal to also learn how audio game designers work and adapt the editor accordingly. Another tool is an augmented reality app for blind people to create music using motion control or swipe as input [35].…”

Section: Inclusive Game Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Activities to Support Sustainable Inclusive Game Design Processes

Westin¹,

Brusk²,

Engström³

2019

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies

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INTRODUCTION: The problem addressed in this work is the lack of knowledge of what inclusive game design would mean in practice within existing design processes of game companies. A pilot project was devised to involve both the game industry and disabled people. OBJECTIVES: The goal in this study was to identify activities that constitute the biggest obstacles to realising sustainable design processes for inclusive game design. METHODS: The study is mainly based on two full-day workshops with the game industry and three game studios, three organisations of disabled youth and authorities. RESULTS: Five activities were identified in the analysis of the workshops: 1) Find opportunities for inclusive game design; 2) Raise awareness about inclusive game design; 3) Handle integrity and security; 4) Recruit the right competence; and 5) Adapt workplaces and tools. CONCLUSION: The five main activities should be considered to achieve sustainable inclusive game design processes.

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Section: Inclusive Game Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Activities to Support Sustainable Inclusive Game Design Processes

Westin¹,

Brusk²,

Engström³

2019

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies

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“…Although enabling end-users to create inclusive game is an incipient practice (for instance, there are solutions to support the development of memory games by blind users under supervision [14] and to form communities of audio game designers [27]), existing studies regarding game accessibility seem to be aimed at professionals developers. For instance, Universally Accessible Games (UA-Games) have techniques to support professionals designing [15,16], and implementing them [9,12].…”

Section: Game Accessibility Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies for Inclusive End-User Co-Creation of Inclusive Storytelling Games

Garcia¹,

Neris²

2019

Entertainment Computing and Serious Games

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As gaming acquires new purposes (for instance, entertainment, education and healthcare), game accessibility becomes increasingly important for multiple domains. For broader inclusion, game accessibility encompass both creation and play. Towards this goal, we have defined a framework to enable more people to create and play digital games In this paper, we present strategies resulting from developing and evaluating Lepi, an inclusive end-user tool for co-creation of inclusive storytelling-based games. Adults with heterogeneous interaction needs, levels of literacy and experience with computers used Lepi to co-create their games over ten creation workshops. Using Lepi and following the framework practices, the participants managed to co-create games accessible for themselves and their peers. From this experience, we have identified some strategies (Creation Commands, Interaction Alternatives for Input, Slots, Creation Alternatives, Assisted and Collaborative Co-Creation, Gentle Slopes, Multimodal Features, Playing Commands and Presenting Game Content) which can contribute towards more inclusive practices of game creation and play of storytelling-based games.

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“…For this purpose, AG designers should advance their understanding of the AG design process, in order to create challenging and exciting audio-interactive experiences. However, the AG designer community is rather small and has important challenges to overcome [4]. Urbanek and Güldenpfennig suggest that the use of sound constitutes a "change of modality" that fundamentally differentiates AG from video game prototyping, making it inherently difficult to draw upon knowledge and practices from the field of video game design, while the existing AG design guidelines are lacking scientific documentation [5].…”

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Speech Puzzles (Spuzzles): Engaging the Reduced, Causal, and Semantic Listening Modes for Puzzle Design in Audio Games

Rovithis,

Papadopoulou,

Komianos

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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This paper proposes a novel approach to audio game design by introducing the concept of speech puzzles (spuzzles) to describe the utilisation of recorded voice for the creation of audio puzzles in ways that challenge players’ different listening modes. In the fields of audio games and audio-interactive applications, speech serves instructive, descriptive, narrative, and in some cases—in the form of hints or quizzes—gameplay purposes by addressing users through language. The suggested approach of spuzzles extends this potential by including, besides encoded meaning, the acoustic properties of sound, thus engaging the user’s causal and reduced listening modes in parallel with the semantic listening mode. An audio game consisting of four inherently different spuzzles was designed as proof of concept and tested by seven third-year students of Audiovisual Arts, who elaborated on their experience through a focus group semi-structured discussion. Despite their difficulty, the spuzzles were well accepted by most of the participants (5/7), whereas all participants agreed on their acoustic richness, need for concentration, and independence from pre-existing musical knowledge. Therefore, the authors suggest that the proposed design approach could serve as a paradigm for future research in the design of complex audio-based game mechanics.

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Building a Community of Audio Game Designers - Towards an Online Audio Game Editor

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Activities to Support Sustainable Inclusive Game Design Processes

Activities to Support Sustainable Inclusive Game Design Processes

Strategies for Inclusive End-User Co-Creation of Inclusive Storytelling Games

Speech Puzzles (Spuzzles): Engaging the Reduced, Causal, and Semantic Listening Modes for Puzzle Design in Audio Games

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