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Towards a Model and a Textual Representation for Location-based Games

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DocEng '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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Location-Based Mobile Games (LBMGs) are a subclass of pervasive games that make use of location technologies to consider the players' geographic position in the game rules and mechanics. This research presents LEGaL, a language to model and represent the structure and multimedia contents (e.g., video, audio, 3D objects, etc.) of LBMGs. LEGaL is an extension of NCL (Nested Context Language) that allows the modelling and representation of mission-based games by supporting spatial and temporal relationships between game elements.

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Ferreira CSalles CSantos LTrinta FViana WRoesler VValdeni de Lima JSaibel Santos CWillrich R(2017)Evaluating LeGaLProceedings of the 23rd Brazillian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/3126858.3131582(65-68)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3126858.3131582

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Towards a Model and a Textual Representation for Location-based Games
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Document scripting languages
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Document representation

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DocEng '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/3103010

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Ferreira CSalles CSantos LTrinta FViana WRoesler VValdeni de Lima JSaibel Santos CWillrich R(2017)Evaluating LeGaLProceedings of the 23rd Brazillian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/3126858.3131582(65-68)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2017
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