Designing Cross Media Games
Irma Lindt, Jan Ohlenburg, Uta Pankoke-Babatz, Sabiha Ghellal, Leif Oppermann, Matt Adams · 2005
Cross media games focus on a wide variety of gaming devices including traditional media channels, game consoles as well as mobile and pervasive computing technology to allow for a broad variety of game experiences. This paper introduces cross media games. It addresses challenges of cross media games and points out game design, technical, commercial and ethical aspects. A gaming scenario illustrates cross media specific game elements and game mechanics. Initial results gained in a paper-based version of the gaming scenario are presented. The paper concludes with an outlook.