A Study On Augmented Reality Audio Game Design And Game Experience

Audio game is kind of digital game based on audio information which serves as the necessary elements of propelling the game process. Both visual disorder player and sound player can participate in the audio game. Researches into the video game have long been under the strong spotlight, however, the design and research into the audio game has attracted little attention, worse still, it is developing slowly. Augmented Reality Audio (ARA) is the hottest object of the research field like digital audio technology, design and development of audio game, and new media technology. ARA could integrate the preset digital audio with the real environmental sound, which makes the brand new design of audio game possible and offers the players a new and fresh experience. ARA game is based on the ARA technology, and the rising of the conception of ARA game brings great driving force and potential possibilities to the development of audio game.By combing through the history of the development of audio game, this thesis first analyzes the successful design case of audio game in the past, and then summarizes the core elements of the design of audio game and the special game mechanism, which guide the game design of this thesis.Through the comparative analysis of the ARA system and the game designed based on this system, on the premise of low cost, we have designed and realized a set of ARA system based on the available technology. Furthermore, we have designed an ARA game prototype based on that system, and then tested this prototypical game; finally interviewed the players about the availability of this game system, the interest of the game, the plot of story, the game mechanism, and the quality of the audio sound, in order to exam the effects of playing this prototypical game.