Carolina Cabral
ABSTRACT
This paper presents Magic Playground, a game engine that enables the development of entertainment applications with realtime gesture-based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We describe the main architectural elements of our system and provide a guideline on how to program the engine in order to create games. Finally, we present usability evaluation results of a game, which emulates the known Tetris game1
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Index Terms
- Developing games with Magic Playground: a gesture-based game engine
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