Exploring Opponent Formats: Game Mechanics for Computer-Supported Physical Games

TY - GEN

T1 - Exploring Opponent Formats

T2 - IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing

AU - Jensen, Mads Møller

AU - Rasmussen, Majken

AU - Grønbæk, Kaj

N1 - Conference code: 12

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - The recent growth in development and research in computer-supported physical games has sprouted a wide variety of games merging qualities from both computer games and sports. Despite the increasing interest in this type of games, exploration of their specific game mechanics and the understanding of how the opponent format and relationships impact a game are almost absent in current research. Thus, this paper aims to elucidate how the perception of a competition differs, depending on the opponent format, by presenting a game mechanic framework. The paper furthermore presents an interactive football-training platform, as well as games designed to explore the different opponent formats. The games are qualitatively evaluated to illuminate the qualities of and distinctions between different types of opponent formats, proposed by the framework terminology.

AB - The recent growth in development and research in computer-supported physical games has sprouted a wide variety of games merging qualities from both computer games and sports. Despite the increasing interest in this type of games, exploration of their specific game mechanics and the understanding of how the opponent format and relationships impact a game are almost absent in current research. Thus, this paper aims to elucidate how the perception of a competition differs, depending on the opponent format, by presenting a game mechanic framework. The paper furthermore presents an interactive football-training platform, as well as games designed to explore the different opponent formats. The games are qualitatively evaluated to illuminate the qualities of and distinctions between different types of opponent formats, proposed by the framework terminology.

KW - Sports

KW - framework

KW - game mechanics

KW - exergames

KW - competition

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-41106-9_6

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-41106-9_6

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-3-642-41105-2

VL - 8215

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

SP - 48

EP - 60

BT - Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2013

A2 - Anacleto, Junia C.

A2 - Clua, Esteban W. G.

A2 - Correa da Silva, Flavio S.

A2 - Fels, Sidney

A2 - Yang, Hyun S.

PB - Springer VS

Y2 - 16 October 2013 through 18 October 2013

ER -