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.

我们正处于游戏行业前所未有的增长时期。根据娱乐零售协会的数据，2020年英国游戏行业的估值超过40亿英镑，这一年音乐和视频娱乐的非数字销售额大幅下降。这与英国游戏销售形成鲜明对比，无论是实体还是数字，分别增长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年全球市值达到134亿美元，预计到2027年将增长至266.8亿美元。新奇和原创性对于游戏产品的消费者来说是非常有价值的品质，这使得他们非常容易接受创新的新想法。如果我们将视频游戏的电影般丰富的感官特性与桌面游戏的真实性和沉浸式剧院的渐进叙事技术相结合，创造出一种大胆的新游戏类型，与以往任何游戏都不一样，并且价格对普通消费者来说都是可以承受的。该项目旨在开发一种新的游戏技术的原型：创建一个混合现实系统，作为数字视频游戏和物理棋盘游戏的平等部分存在，并重点关注单位成本，开发人员可访问性和制造可持续性。该项目还将包括围绕该技术开发原型游戏，展示了它作为一种全新的方式来创建动态和沉浸式游戏的潜力。这个简单而强大的系统将为游戏设计师提供一系列有趣的游戏互动，包括（但不限于）：无线游戏件识别、玩家语音识别、上下文敏感音频的传送、物理件移动跟踪以及通过因特网远程玩游戏的可能性。最后，该项目旨在开发一套可访问的工具，使第三方设计师能够开发、制造和发布基于该技术的自己的游戏。