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Röber, N., & Masuch, M. 2005, June 16–20, Playing audio-only games: A compendium of interacting with virtual auditory worlds. Paper presented at Changing Views -- Worlds in Play, Toronto. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (27/07/2005, 11:13) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |
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| Resource type: Proceedings Article BibTeX citation key: Rober2005 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: Game Design, Sound Design Keywords: Auditory Worlds, Electronic space, Psychoacoustics, Sonification, Sound-only Games, Virtual environment Creators: Masuch, Röber Publisher: DiGRA (Toronto) Collection: Changing Views -- Worlds in Play |
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Talking about games refers in today’s world often to the play of audio-visual computer games. Since their first introduction in the 1960s, computer games have evolved in many ways and are today one of the fastest growing industries. Besides the classic visual games, another niche has emerged over the last decade: audio-only computer games. The main difference to conventional games is that these games can only be played and perceived through sound and acoustics. Although, initially developed by and for the visually impaired community, these games posses huge potentials for mobile (transportable) gaming and can be enjoyed by all hearing. In this work we present an overview of audio-only games, and discuss the methods and techniques to play and design such auditory worlds. We further explore the evolved genres and address the advantages, as well as the limitations of audio based gaming. Our work is motivated by our own research in this area and the development of a framework, which allows an easy design and setup of audio-only computer games. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |
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Brief summary of salient features of audio-only games with some short exemplars.
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| p.3 "The most important quality to explore acoustic spaces is the ability to determine the origin of sounds and speech." Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |