Rapid prototyping of location-based games with the multi-user publishing environment application platform

Suomela, Riku; Koskinen, Kimmo; Heikkinen, Kari

doi:10.1049/ic:20050228

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“…In our experiments [24][14], we created location-aware games in 24 hours [24] and context-aware games in one week [14]. The focus of these sessions was to design and implement a game in the given timeframe, which each group managed to do.…”

Section: Rapid Game Developmentmentioning

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Using prototypes in early pervasive game development

Koivisto

Suomela

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games

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In this paper, we discuss using various prototyping methods in early game development. We have playtested pervasive game prototypes using agile software prototype development methods and guided paper prototyping methods. We give examples of four pervasive games where both paper-prototyping and softwareprototyping methods are used. We also compare results that have been achieved by testing games with the potential end users of the game and with colleagues or other experts. The benefits and disadvantages of the methods are discussed and their use in the game development process is described, i.e. when the methods should be used and what should be considered when using them.

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Section: Rapid Game Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using prototypes in early pervasive game development

Koivisto

Suomela

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games

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“…In [17] motes are attached to the players of a centralized pervasive game, but their storage and computing capabilities are not exploited, as they are used only to gather light and acceleration data. Conversely, the work in [25] provides only the software architecture to manage sensed information, still considering the sensors simply as data sources, and does not explore their actual use in developing pervasive games.…”

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Pervasive games in a mote-enabled virtual world using tuple space middleware

Mottola

Murphy

Picco

2006

Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games - NetGames '06

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Pervasive games are a new and exciting field where the user experience benefits from the blending of real and virtual elements. Players are no longer confined to computer screens. Rather, interactions with devices embedded within the real world and physical movements become an integral part of the gaming experience. Several prototypes of pervasive games have been proposed by both industry and academia. However, in such games the issues arising from the integration of players and real world, the management of the context surrounding the players, and the need for communication and distributed coordination are often addressed in an ad-hoc fashion. Therefore, the underlying software fabric is often not reusable, ultimately slowing down the diffusion of pervasive games.In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a pervasive game on top of TinyLIME, a middleware system supporting data sharing among mobile and embedded devices. By illustrating the design of a pervasive game we developed, we argue concretely that the programming abstractions supported by TinyLIME greatly simplify the data and context management characteristics of pervasive games, and provide an effective and reusable building block for their development. TinyLIME was originally designed to support applications where mobile users collect data from sensors scattered in the physical environment. We build upon this capability to put forth a second contribution, namely, the use of wireless sensor devices (or motes) as a computing platform for pervasive games. Besides reporting physical data for the sake of the game, we use motes to store information relevant to the game plot, e.g., virtual objects. Motes are typically very small in size, and therefore can be hidden in the environment, enhancing the sense of immersion in a virtual world. To the best of our knowledge, this original use of wireless sensor devices is novel in the scientific and gaming literature. Furthermore, it is naturally supported by TinyLIME, yielding a unified programming abstraction that spans the heterogeneous gaming platform we propose.

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A Review on Neural Network and Morphology Based ANPR

Jacob¹,

Shanavaz²

2020

Materials Today: Proceedings

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Rapid prototyping of location-based games with the multi-user publishing environment application platform

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Using prototypes in early pervasive game development

Using prototypes in early pervasive game development

Pervasive games in a mote-enabled virtual world using tuple space middleware

A Review on Neural Network and Morphology Based ANPR

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