Saskia Bakker
Elise van den Hoven
ABSTRACT
In this paper we describe the game 'Weathergods', which is implemented on the Entertaible tabletop gaming platform [1]. The game uses either iconic or symbolic [2] tangible objects for interaction and marries both the advantages of traditional board games and computer games.
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Index Terms
- Weathergods: tangible interaction in a digital tabletop game
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