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Playing With Shadows: An Exploration of Calm Game Interaction

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 325 - 328

https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395813

Published: 06 July 2020 Publication History

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Game interaction and gameplay are usually rapid, putting the player under pressure. Here, we explore calm game interaction as a concept that rejects the idea of rushing the player, and emphasizes thought-through, accurate and relaxed player interaction. We present Shadventures, a two-player exploration game that uses shadows of one player's hands in combination with keyboard input from the second player to provide a calming player experience.

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Playing With Shadows: An Exploration of Calm Game Interaction
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Virtual worlds software
        Interactive games

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

July 2020

605 pages

ISBN:9781450379878

DOI:10.1145/3393914

General Chairs:
Ron Wakkary
Simon Fraser University, CA and Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Kristina Andersen
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Program Chairs:
Will Odom
Simon Fraser University, CA
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Audrey Desjardins
University of Washington, USA
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Marianne Graves Petersen
Aarhus University, DK

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