Building upon everyday play

Abstract

Most of today's video game strategies are based on a static set of game controls and player actions that remain oblivious to the player's context and own creativity. Building Upon Everyday Play is the result of a collaboration of Control Freaks, a pervasive gaming experience project, and Exemplar, a toolkit that uses programming-by-demonstration to author sensor-based interactions. In combination, Building Upon Everyday Play furthers a pervasive gaming experience through appropriation of objects in the player's environment and enables new ways to play.The project consists of a combination of a portable, wireless motion-sensing clamp that can be attached to everyday objects to turn them into game controllers by proxy, and a programming-by-demonstration system that translates sensor data reported by the controller into game events. In the demonstration, participants will be able to play custom video games projected on a large 2D screen by attaching the clamp to their bodies or provided household objects, and to invent their own moves to control the provided games.

TeMPS: A Conceptual Framework for Pervasive and Social Games

“…The game detects the player's heart rate and creates artistic effects according to it. e) (Hand/Body) Gesture/Posture, Motion, Balance, Acceleration of Motion: Sense and use player's gesture, posture (AquaGauntlet [7], Control Freaks [20]), motion/acceleration (Swordplay [17]), balance status (TiltPad Pacman [21]), and similar to enable the game proxy to act accordingly. Motion and acceleration sometimes is hard to distinguish, because they often occur at the same time.…”

“…• "Affective Gaming": (Brainball [9], AffQuake [7], Relax to Win [19]), • "Augmented Tabletop Games": (STARTS [7], Treasure [14]), • "Location-based Games": (Can You See Me Now [28], Uncle Roy All Around You [23], Human Pacman [25], The Drop [2], Capture the Flag [5], Epidemic Menace [4], SupaFly [3], The Songs of North [29], Insectopia [30], PAC LAN [31]…), • "Augmented Reality Games": (AR² Hockey [7], PingPongPlus [32], AquaGauntlet [7], ARQuake [10], ARTankwar [7], Magic Land [33], Tilt-Pad Pacman [21] and etc), and • Others: like Swordplay [17], NEAT-o-Race [34], Virtual Aquarium [24], Mona Lisa Bookshelf [24], Swordplay [35], Human Trials [36], and Control Freaks [20]. Apart from these kinds of games, we also include several applications which may even hardly be called computer games like Camelot [13] and Ere Be Dragons [11].…”

Video play

“…We even witnessed interaction across the video stream, where the child spoke about the clothing her mother was wearing when looking for something blue. It seems likely that there could be other ways of bringing in real world objects, without embedding them with sensors like in Building on Everyday Play [19]. The tight coupling between physical objects and games or interfaces could instead be facilitated by family members, especially when the goal is communication and conversation.…”