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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE A SURVEY O...

This book scrutinizes pervasive games from a technological perspective  focusing on the
sub-domain of games that satisfy the criteria that they make use of virtual game elements. In
the computer game industry  the use of a game engine to build games is common  but current game
engines do not support pervasive games. Since the computer game industry is already rich with
game engines  this book investigates: (i) if a game engine can be repurposed to stage pervasive
games  (ii) if features describing a would-be pervasive game engine can be identified  (iii)
using those features  if an architecture be found in the same 'product line' as an existing
engine and that can be extended to stage pervasive games (iv) and  finally  if there any
challenges and open issues that remain. The approach to answering these questions is twofold.
First  a survey of pervasive games is conducted  gathering technical details and distilling a
component feature set that enables pervasive games. Second  a type of game engine is chosen as
candidate in the same product line as a would-be pervasive game engine  supporting as much of
the feature set as possible. The architecture is extended to support the entire feature set and
used to stage a pervasive game called Codename: Heroes   validating the architecture 
highlighting features of particular importance and identifying any open issues. The conclusion
of this book is also twofold: the resulting feature set is verified to coincide with the
definition of pervasive games and related work. And secondly  a virtual world engine is
selected as candidate in the same product line as a would-be pervasive game engine. Codename:
Heroes was successfully implemented  reaping the benefits of using the selected engine 
development time was low  spanning just a few months. Codename: Heroes was staged twice  with
no stability issues or down time.

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