[PRL14] Designing Tangible Video Games: Lessons Learned from the Sifteo Cubes

Conférence Internationale avec comité de lecture : Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14), May 2014, pp.3163-3166, New York, USA, (DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2556991)

Auteurs: C. Pillias , R. Robert-Bouchard , G. Levieux

Mots clés: Sifteo Cubes; tangible user interface; tangible video game; video game design; mixed-reality games; player strategies; interaction, video game

Résumé: In this paper, we present a collaborative game designed for Sifteo Cubes, a new tangible interface for multiplayer games. We discuss how this game exploits the platform's interface to transfer some of the game mechanics into the non-digital world, and how this approach affects both the player's experience and the design process. We present the technical limitations encountered during game development and analyze video recordings of play sessions with regard to the play strategies developed by the players. Then, we identify two properties that this game shares with many other games on tangible platforms and discuss how these properties influence both the game design process and the player experience. We advocate that these properties provide players with more freedom and relatedness, while helping to create an easy-to-learn and customizable gameplay, despite their own design limitations.

Commentaires:

Honorable Mention Award.

Equipe: mim

Collaboration: CEDRIC

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@inproceedings {
	PRL14,
	title	=	"{Designing Tangible Video Games: Lessons Learned from the Sifteo Cubes}",
	author	=	" C. Pillias and R. Robert-Bouchard and G. Levieux ",
	booktitle	=	"{Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14)}",
	year	=	2014,
	month	=	"May",
	pages	=	"3163-3166",
	address	=	"New York, USA",
	note	=	"{Honorable Mention Award. }",
	doi	=	"10.1145/2556288.2556991",
}