Desenvolvimento de interfaces multimodais para jogos de estratégia

Abstract

Multimodal Interfaces is having a great increase when it comes to digital games, because of the innovative mechanics and dynamics that they allow. However, its development is complex. For example, not all the games that use Kinect explore its capabilities in total. As such, in the dissertation a solution based in a gestural interface for the exploration of strategy games, which allows the creation of new mechanics and dynamics, will be presented. In order to validate the presented solution, a study case about the prototype of a new strategy game based on the History of Portugal has been done. It was possible to conclude that with this solution it is possible to make the gamer-computer interaction more intuitive and dynamic. For instance, the use of gestures of both hands to move the map, select units, increase or decrease zoom, amongst other functionalities.