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Game design for ad-hoc multi-touch gameplay on large tabletop displays

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Maic MasuchAuthors Info & Claims

Futureplay '10: Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology

Pages 90 - 97

https://doi.org/10.1145/1920778.1920791

Published: 06 May 2010 Publication History

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This paper examines game design for multi-touch enabled systems, focusing on tabletop computers that are exposed to the public. We first elaborate on the requirements for ad-hoc collaborative multi-touch gameplay. As our main contribution, we identified particular gameplay aspects and formalized them in reference to formal elements of gameplay: The game mechanics should support different scopes of involvement and make use of spatial conflicts that relate to the player resources. The game should further offer outcomes that can be achieved in continuous ad-hoc group gameplay. Based on these criteria, we developed the multi-touch game Magic Garden. The case shows, how the defined elements support game creation for ad-hoc collaborative multi-touch play. As a final result, we propose to combine multiple separate mini-games in a mixed scenario as a general approach for the creation of multi-touch games for large public displays.

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Futureplay '10: Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology

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ISBN:9781450302357

DOI:10.1145/1920778

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Soldati MZahn CBildibay DIseli TLeisner DNiederhauser MRecher M(2020)Create Video Games to Promote Well-Being of Elderly People – A Practice-Driven GuidelineHuman Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging10.1007/978-3-030-50249-2_29(401-418)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2020
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Anstead EDurrant ABenford SKirk DShaer OShen CMorris MHorn M(2012)Tabletop games for photo consumption at theme parksProceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces10.1145/2396636.2396646(61-70)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2396636.2396646
Amador GGomes A(2011)TouchAllProceedings of the 2011 Fifth FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering10.1109/MUE.2011.21(53-58)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MUE.2011.21

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