Dead on Arrival: Adapting Games to Finish at a Given Time or Location

Arne Öhsen; Jörn Loviscach

Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. Third International Conference, INTETAIN 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009. Proceedings

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Dead on Arrival: Adapting Games to Finish at a Given Time or Location

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_21,
    author={Arne \O{}hsen and J\o{}rn Loviscach},
    title={Dead on Arrival: Adapting Games to Finish at a Given Time or Location},
    proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. Third International Conference, INTETAIN 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2009. Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={game difficulty adaptation automated content creation GPS location-based service casual games},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_21}
}

Arne Öhsen
Jörn Loviscach
Year: 2012
Dead on Arrival: Adapting Games to Finish at a Given Time or Location
INTETAIN
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_21

Arne Öhsen¹^,*, Jörn Loviscach²^,*

1: Hochschule Bremen (University of Applied Sciences)
2: Fachhochschule Bielefeld (Univ. of Applied Sciences)

*Contact email: v.oehsen@googlemail.com, jl@j3L7h.de

Abstract

Casual and other games often serve as time-killing applications, be it on the commuter train or in the back seat of a shared car. When one arrives at the destination, the game has to be interrupted or aborted, which is annoying or even frustrating. Hence, we propose to continuously adapt the game’s level of difficulty to the estimated remaining time to arrival. This can be preset as a number of minutes or can continuously be estimated from the player’s position in relation to a predefined destination. Our dungeon-style prototype is based on an automated engine for content placement and can also make use of GPS data. We report on preliminary results from user tests.

Keywords: game difficulty adaptation automated content creation GPS location-based service casual games

Published: 2012-05-21

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_21