A novel mixed-reality gaming technology stack enabling the creation of unique and affordable digital-physical connected games, coupled with the prototyping of a new game IP designed to showcase its affordances.

新颖的混合现实游戏技术堆栈能够创建独特且价格实惠的数字物理连接游戏，并结合旨在展示其功能的新游戏 IP 原型设计。

• 批准号: 10069574
• 金额: $ 3.81万
• 依托单位: MOTHER ULTIMATE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10069574
• 关键词: novel; mixed; reality; gaming; technology

We are in an unprecedented time of growth within the gaming industries. According to the Entertainment Retailers Association, the UK's game industry surpassed a £4bn valuation in 2020, a year where music and video entertainment saw a significant decline in non-digital sales. This contrasts sharply with UK game sales, either physical or digital -- up 4.6% and 16.3% respectively. The tabletop gaming market in particular has experienced a golden age over the last ten years, reaching $13.4bn global market value in 2021 and with a projected growth to $26.68bn by 2027\. Novelty and originality are hugely valued qualities for consumers of play products, making them extremely receptive to innovative new ideas.What if we mixed the cinematic, sensory-rich nature of video games with the tactility of tabletop games and the progressive narrative techniques of immersive theatre, to create a bold new type of game unlike anything that's existed before, and at a price point affordable to the average consumer?This project aims to develop a prototype for a new gaming technology: the creation of a mixed-reality system that exists as equal parts digital video game and physical board game, and with a key focus on unit cost, developer accessibility and manufacturing sustainability.This project will also encompass the development of a prototype game around this technology, demonstrating its potential as an entirely novel way of creating dynamic and immersive games played socially at the table.This simple yet robust system will present game designers with a host of interesting play interactions to explore including (but not limited to): wireless game piece identification, player voice recognition, the delivery of context-sensitive audio, physical piece movement tracking and the possibility for remote play over the internet. It will do all of this at a cost to the user far cheaper than current competitors.Lastly, this project aims to prototype a suite of accessible tools to enable third party designers to develop, manufacture and release their own games built on the technology.

我们正处于游戏产业中发展的前所未有的时期。根据娱乐零售商协会的数据，英国的游戏行业在2020年的价值超过了40亿英镑的价值，一年中音乐和视频娱乐的非数字销售量显着下降。这与英国游戏销售（物理或数字销售）形成鲜明对比 - 分别增长了4.6％和16.3％。特别是桌面游戏市场在过去十年中经历了黄金时代，2021年的全球市场价值达到134亿美元，预计到2027年的增长率为266.8亿美元。新颖性和独创性对于游戏产品的消费者来说是非常有价值的品质，使它们非常容易受到创新的新想法。如果我们将视频游戏的电影，感官丰富的性质混合在一起，桌面游戏的触感和渐进式的叙述性的渐进式叙事技巧，那么在价格上不可能就可以提供一定的项目，并且可以在一定的情况下创建一个大胆的新型游戏，以使其成为一定的产品，并且可以在某种程度上创造一个项目？技术：创建一个混合现实系统，其成分是数字视频游戏和物理棋盘游戏，并且关注单位成本，开发人员的可访问性和制造可持续性的关注，该项目还将涵盖围绕该技术的原型游戏开发的开发，从而展示其潜力，以表明其在桌面上具有良好的互动，并在桌面上介绍了一个既有互动的餐桌，又可以启动了一个有趣的餐桌。限制为）：无线游戏件标识，玩家语音识别，上下文敏感音频的传递，物理零件运动跟踪以及通过Internet远程播放的可能性。它将以比目前的竞争对手便宜得多的代价来实现所有这些操作。截然不同，该项目旨在原型制作一套可访问的工具，以使第三方设计师能够开发，制造和释放自己在技术上构建的游戏。