Design and development of an editor for location-based games

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ortega-Arranz, Alejandro
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Αβούρης, Νικόλαος
• Μορφή: Thesis
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: 2014
• Θέματα: Location/based games; Create content editor; Desktop; Linking games; Χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια; Κινητές συσκευές; 794.815 26

Nowadays, mobile games and applications have turned around in essential elements in the current society. But, at the same time that world does not stop (society, tendencies, ... it changes daily), mobile games and applications should update and modify their contents. Thus, content providers play an important role and turn around important. The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) group from University of Patras, have developed some mobile games with a playful and educative scope, and also its content editors. But, could be possible stopping developing one editor for each game and make one in common? even could we extend it to other games not developed by the HCI group? This will be our purpose during this document. Trying to create a content editor despite the fact of the differences of the games, logic, user interface and other many aspects which differ them. Therefore, the content provider should be able to create, edit or update the information or content without changing the performance of the games. For carrying this out, first of all we should analyze which things the games have in common and then, to get an abstraction. This abstraction should work for all the games although they have incompatible properties among them. Then, for this kind of properties, we should add somehow a visibility parameter. By this way, that properties will be invisible for games which do not use them. Hence, this common content editor should be able to add, modify and delete objects of the games which have been developed and can be played everywhere in the whole world.