Katharina Emmerich
ABSTRACT
New technologies have made the mobile phone to a multifunctional ally who accompanies many people in their everyday life. Smartphones and tablet PCs have also established new game settings. In this paper, we investigate a new trend utilizing smart devices as second screens that are added to gaming situations. We give a definition of Second Screen Gaming, and illuminate a special subcategory we call Smart Gaming. Further, we argue that there is a need for comprehensive design guidelines to integrate the second screen as a core part of the game design. Additionally, we have identified several challenges while designing such games and point out the opportunities for game designers in following this new trend. At the end of this work, three game prototypes are introduced as case studies, which demonstrate different aspects of Second Screen Gaming and thereby illustrate how innovative, engaging and highly social games can be created.
- Björk, S., Holopainen, J. Patterns in game design. Charles River Media, Boston, MA, USA, 2005.Google Scholar
- Charles, D, McNeill, M., McAlister, M., Black, M., Moore, A., Stringer, K. Player-Centred Game Design: Player Modelling and Adaptive Digital Games. In Proc. Digital Games Research Conference, 2005, 285--298.Google Scholar
- Fullerton, T. Game design workshop: a playcentric approach to creating innovative games. Morgan Kaufmann, Amsterdam, 2008.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Isbister, K. Enabling Social Play: A Framework for Design and Evaluation. In Bernhaupt, R. Evaluating User Experience in Games: Concepts and Methods, 11--22, Springer, London, 2010.Google Scholar
- de Kort, Y., IJsselsteijn, W. A., Gajadhar, B. J. People, Places, and Play: A research framework for digital game experience in a socio-spatial context. Computers in Entertainment - Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in Entertainment 6, (2008), Article18.Google Scholar
- Langley, P. Machine learning for adaptive user interfaces. In Proc. of the 21st German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer (1997), 53--62. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Poslad, S. Ubiquitous computing: smart devices, environments and interactions. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Seif El-Nasr, M., Aghabeigi, B., Milam, D., Erfani, M., Lameman, B., Maygoli, H., Mah, S. Understanding and Evaluating Cooperative Games. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005, 253--262. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Sweller, J., van Merriënboer, J. J. G., Paas, F. G. W. C. Cognitive architecture and instructional design. Educational Psychology Review 10, (1998), 251--296.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Top One Billion Units for the First Time, According to IDC http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24645514 (Press Release, 27 Jan 2014)Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Defining second screen gaming: exploration of new design patterns
Recommendations
Defining grief play in MMORPGs: player and developer perceptions
ACE '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technologyIn current literature, grief play in Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) refers to play styles where a player intentionally disrupts the gaming experience of other players. In our study, we have discovered that player experiences ...
Enemy NPC design patterns in shooter games
DPG '12: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Design Patterns in GamesGameplay in single-player shooter games primarily consists of combat with Non-player Characters (NPCs). However, there has been little research done to study how enemy NPCs affect player behavior in shooter games. As a consequence, there is no formal ...
Pervasive Mobile Games --- A New Mindset for Players and Developers
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Fun and GamesPervasive games are an emerging new game genre, which includes context information as an integral part of the game. These games differ from traditional games in that they expand spatio-temporal and social aspects of gaming. Mobile devices support this ...
Comments