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Audio Games: Investigation of the Potential Through Prototype Development

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A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing

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This article discusses the potential of audio games based on the evaluation of three projects: a story-driven audio role-playing game (RPG), an interactive audiobook with RPG elements, and a set of casual sound-based games. The potential is understood, both in popularity and playability terms. The first factor is connected to the degree of players’ interest, while the second one to the degree of their engagement in sound-based game worlds. Although presented projects are embedded within the landscape of past and contemporary audio games and gaming platforms, the authors reach into the near future, concluding with possible development directions for this non-visual interactive entertainment.

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    More audio games designed specifically for visually impaired may be found on the official GMA Game’s website and on AudioGames.net [1, 8].

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    Authors’ translation.

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  1. School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Jarosław Beksa & Phil Carter

  2. Gamification Lab, Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany

    Sonia Fizek

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Pradipta Biswas

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Carlos Duarte

  3. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Patrick Langdon

  4. Centre of Computer Graphics, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luis Almeida

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Beksa, J., Fizek, S., Carter, P. (2015). Audio Games: Investigation of the Potential Through Prototype Development. In: Biswas, P., Duarte, C., Langdon, P., Almeida, L. (eds) A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6708-2_11

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