After my last Diploma Colloquium I decided to focus on the idea to use mobile phones as a game controller. These devices are very suitable for controling a game in your everyday life.
If people own a mobile phone they are carrying this device around the whole day. Moblie Phones are producing a permanent stream of [...]
ideas
idea - mobile phone research
gameboard
View from my room. Can you use this setting as a gameboard for an ad hoc game or play?! Are there any game mechanics or rules which came to your mind if you see this setting or can you treat this as an experimental playground?
how can you use your environment (objects, location) as an interface to control a game?
An new idea to develop an alternate and passive game control is not to use the physical objects but images of the specific objects. You can categorize the images and assign them to several game tasks.
In a discussion I had with my professor an idea came up to use image recognition through the camera of [...]