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Abstract | ||
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This paper presents an authoring tool for building location-based mobile games, enhanced with augmented reality capabilities. These games are a subclass of pervasive games in which the gameplay evolves and progresses according to player's location. We have conducted a literature review on authoring tools and pervasive games to (i) collect the common scenarios of current location-based mobile games, and (ii) features of authoring tools for these games. Additionally, we have also used the focus groups methodology to find new scenarios for location-based mobile games, in particular regarding how augmented reality can be used in these games. Both literature review and focus groups provide us a set of requirements to design a software architecture for our authoring tool, a web-based application where games are created and executed. In our approach, games are designed as a set of missions that can be ordered or not. Players use mobile devices to perform these missions in order to complete each game. Our main objective is to provide a software solution to enable non-programmers users to design, build and run location-based mobile games. In order to evaluate our tool, we present a game design called "Battle for Fortaleza", and how this game is implemented in our solution. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/SBGames.2015.12 | 2015 14th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Pervasive Games,Location-based Games,Augmented Reality,Authoring Tools | Video game graphics,Emergent gameplay,Game mechanics,Video game design,Computer science,Turns, rounds and time-keeping systems in games,Simulation,Video game development,Game design,Augmented reality,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
2159-6654 | 978-1-4673-8844-3 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.35 | 7 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleandro Noleto | 1 | 1 | 0.35 |
| Messias Lima | 2 | 1 | 0.35 |
| Luís Fernando Maia Silva | 3 | 8 | 1.91 |
| Windson Viana | 4 | 201 | 28.40 |
| Fernando Trinta | 5 | 39 | 14.93 |