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Joint International Conference on Serious Games

JCSG 2017: Serious Games pp 284–295Cite as

Conceptual Approach Towards Recursive Hardware Abstraction Layers

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Cross-platform publishing is a must have in game development. Sophisticated game engines such as Unreal or Unity provide cross-platform publishing capability. Therefore, many developers use these game engines. On the other hand, several game developers also provide their own technology and do not want to become fully dependent on external technology. Based on that situation efficient mechanisms are required to combine both sides: Usage of custom in-house technology enhanced with multi-platform capabilities. This paper introduces a new concept for hardware abstraction layers tackling this issue. Sections 1 and 2 motivate the use of multiple hardware abstraction layers and provide a brief overview of related work. Section 3 describes the Kha and Kore frameworks as basic game technology for custom in-house game engines. In the main part of this paper, a conceptual approach of hardware abstraction layers, is introduced in Sect. 4 and Sect. 5 discusses its practical use for the integration in Unreal and Unity. Finally, Sect. 6 provides an overview and best practice examples of how to use Kha and Kore for Serious Games.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://github.com/floooh/oryol.

  2. 2.

    https://www.unrealengine.com.

  3. 3.

    http://angleproject.org.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx.

  5. 5.

    http://gfx-rs.github.io.

  6. 6.

    http://haxe.org.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/kripken/emscripten.

  8. 8.

    http://llvm.org.

  9. 9.

    https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/Kode/Kha.

  11. 11.

    https://github.com/Kode/Kore.

  12. 12.

    https://neurocare-aal.de.

  13. 13.

    http://darmstadt-marketing.de/fileadmin/spiel/.

  14. 14.

    https://www.iuno-projekt.de/veranstaltungen/termine/eventdetail/44/-/hessentag.html.

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  1. Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Robert Konrad, Polona Caserman, Stefan Göbel & Ralf Steinmetz

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  1. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Mariano Alcañiz

  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  3. Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

    Minhua Ma

  4. SINTEF Technology and Society, Trondheim, Norway

    Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

  5. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  6. Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Tim Marsh

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Konrad, R., Caserman, P., Göbel, S., Steinmetz, R. (2017). Conceptual Approach Towards Recursive Hardware Abstraction Layers. In: Alcañiz, M., Göbel, S., Ma, M., Fradinho Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70111-0_26

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