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A Real Virtuality Application: The Real Farmer Game

Authors:
Michail Tourlos
Aris Paraskevopoulos
Christos Pezirkianidis
Stavros Stavrianidis
Iakovos Pavlopoulos
George Tselikis
Nikolaos Tselikas
Anthony Boucouvalas

Keywords: Real Virtuality; Game development.

Abstract:
The paper presents the concept of “Real Virtuality” and applies it to online games, by implying the real-time integration of real life conditions and elements into the virtual world of a game, rendering it as lifelike as possible. On this basis and by taking into account the real weather conditions in real-time, we designed a simple game prototype (i.e., the Real Farmer) based on the main concept of the popular game FarmVille. The concept, the architecture and the implementation issues of the Real Farmer game are all presented and analyzed. Finally, as a proof of concept and for measuring the efficiency and the reliability of the implemented algorithms that mix real and virtual environments in the game context, a comparison between the results in a real life farm and the corresponding ones in the game is presented, which validated our implementation.

Pages: 32 to 36

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: September 29, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9383

ISBN: 978-1-61208-292-9

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 29, 2013 to October 3, 2013