Towards Interoperability in Video Games

Parkkila, Janne; Hynninen, Timo; Ikonen, Jouni; Porras, Jari; Radulović, Filip

doi:10.1145/2808435.2808454

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Many research works have been conducted to develop game-related ontologies, e.g. developing game content ontology to describe games characteristics, properties and design process (Leino 2010;Teixeira et al 2008;Dubin and Jett 2015), using ontological framework as the guide to develop and employ game-based training (Anthony et al 2009), using an ontology and a set of rules to represent game logics (BinSubaih et al 2005), using ontologies as a solution to enable transfer of meaningful game information between different video games (Parkkila et al 2015), using defined learning game ontology as evaluation methodology of serious games for teachers/trainers to choose and retrieve learning games (Ghannem 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Semantic framework for interactive animation generation and its application in virtual shadow play performance

Liang

Deng²,

Chang³

et al. 2018

Virtual Reality

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Designing and creating complex and interactive animation is still a challenge in the field of virtual reality, which has to handle various aspects of functional requirements (e.g. graphics, physics, AI, multimodal inputs and outputs, and massive data assets management). In this paper, a semantic framework is proposed to model the construction of interactive animation and promote animation assets reuse in a systematic and standardized way. As its ontological implementation, two domainspecific ontologies for the hand-gesture-based interaction and animation data repository have been developed in the context of Chinese traditional shadow play art. Finally, prototype of interactive Chinese shadow play performance system using deep motion sensor device is presented as the usage example.

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Semantic framework for interactive animation generation and its application in virtual shadow play performance

Liang

Deng²,

Chang³

et al. 2018

Virtual Reality

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“…For example, a game ontology that is developed based on game theories to facilitate interactions in multi-agent system [30]; game content ontology [31]; using ontology to describe games characteristics, properties and design process [32][33]; using ontological framework as the guide to develop and employ game-based training [34]; using ontology and a set of rules to represent game logics [35]; ontologies as a solution to enable transfer of meaningful game information between different video games [36]; using defined learning game ontology as the evaluation methodology of serious games for teachers/trainers to choose and retrieve learning games [37]. In Semantic Class Library designed for semantic 3D game virtual environment [38], 3D model can be classified to provide additional semantic information, such as physical attributes, functional information besides 3D representations.…”

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Ontology-Based Interactive Animation/Game Generation for Chinese Shadow Play Preservation

Liang¹,

Deng²,

Chang³

et al. 2016

2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)

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Abstract-Interactive animation generation is an attractive area of research for current animation developers in the field of virtual reality. As an essential tool for solving problems in many research areas, using standardised and structured terminologies, an ontological analysis could concisely describe the core logic of complex systems at a high level and facilitate system design.We propose a semantic framework using ontological methods to model the construction of interactive animation and promote integration process in a systematic and standardised way. A usage example is presented to provide guidance in generating animation of hand gesture based interactive Chinese shadow puppetry play for the heritage preservation of the traditional art. Domain-specific ontologies for the Chinese traditional shadow play and hand-gesture-based interaction are developed as the ontological implementation of the framework. Finally, an animation of hand-gesture-based interactive shadow play is generated.

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“…However, as the developers were discussing interoperability, support for multiple platforms and support for development that is independent of other developers were mentioned as necessary requirements. Based on our previous research (Parkkila, Hynninen, Ikonen, Porras, & Radulovic, 2015;, ontologies were selected as a tool for enabling interoperability among separate video games. The term 'ontology' refers to the common conceptualization of information (Shadbolt, Berners-Lee, & Hall, 2006) that can be understood by machines.…”

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Gamecloud - A Platform for Connecting Video Games

Parkkila

Järvi

Hynninen

et al. 2016

JVWR

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The growing video game markets, especially the mobile market, have caused problems in terms of new game products being found by players. Cross-promotion and in-game advertising have been used to promote video games inside each other. However, the digital nature of video games as an interactive medium enables deeper collaboration between video games, and could be used in a more profound manner. We interviewed Finnish video game companies to understand if they were interested in creating deeper collaboration between their game products, and how such collaboration could take place. Based on the results, we built a platform called Gamecloud for connecting games together. We present the platform architecture and demonstrate it in use, with examples of connecting games with other games and connecting games with the real world, alongside an example of physical exercising.

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Towards Interoperability in Video Games

Cited by 7 publications

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Semantic framework for interactive animation generation and its application in virtual shadow play performance

Semantic framework for interactive animation generation and its application in virtual shadow play performance

Ontology-Based Interactive Animation/Game Generation for Chinese Shadow Play Preservation

Gamecloud - A Platform for Connecting Video Games

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