Rethinking Prototyping for Audio Games: On Different Modalities in the Prototyping Process

There are many similarities between prototyping for traditional computer games and prototyping for other interactive systems, for example, applications for the work place. In most cases, pen and paper are used to initially test design ideas and feasibility. However, in audio games pen and paper can be rather useless for sketching the user experience of sound. In this paper, we argue that conventional lo-fi prototyping techniques are less appropriate for audio game design and take a look at existing models of game design processes. In this course, we identify and describe a major challenge in prototyping audio games, which we named “Change of Modality”.

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Michael Urbanek

Florian Güldenpfennig

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.18

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] B. Buxton 2010 Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and The Right Design Morgan Kaufmann

[2] T. M. DrewesE. MynattM. Gandy et al 2000 Sleuth: An Audio Experience Proceedings of The International Conference on Auditory Display

[3] T. Fullerton 2014 Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games CRC press

[4] R. Jamison 2016 Announcing a New Tool for Building Interactive Adventure Games on Alexa May 29 2017 https://developer.amazon.com/de/blogs/alexa/post/txeqv5k754ys77/announcing-a-new-tool-for-building-interactive-adventure-games-on-alexa

[5] J. LöwgrenE. Stolterman 2007 Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology MIT Press

[6] P. MendelsJ. Frens 2008 The Audio Adventurer: Design of a Portable Audio Adventure Game Fun and Games 46 58 Springer

[7] N. Papworth 2010 iSpooks: An Audio Focused Game Design Proceedings of the 5th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound 11 ACM

[8] N. RöberM. Masuch 2004 Interacting with sound: An interaction paradigm for virtual auditory worlds Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Auditory Display

[9] E. RovithisA. FlorosA. MniestrisN. Grigoriou 2014 Audio games as educational tools: Design principles and examples Games Media Entertainment (GEM), 2014 IEEE 1 8

[10] K. SalenE. Zimmerman 2004 Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals MIT press

[11] J. Schell 2014 The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses CRC Press

[12] M. UrbanekF. Güldenpfennig 2017 Tangible Audio Game Development Kit: Prototyping Audio Games with a Tangible Editor Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 473 479 ACM

[13] E. VellemanR. van TolS. HuibertsH. Verwey 2004 3D Shooting Games, Multimodal Games, Sound Games and More Working Examples of the Future of Games for the Blind International Conference on Computers for Handicapped Persons 257 263 Springer

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