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COMBIFORM:
A CONSOLE FOR THE NEW COMMUNAL CASUAL GAME GENRE
by
Edmond C. Yee
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
(INTERACTIVE MEDIA)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Edmond C. Yee
Object Description
| Title | Combiform: a console for the new communal casual game genre |
| Author | Yee, Edmond C. |
| Author email | ectyecty@gmail.com;ectyecty@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Fine Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Interactive Media |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-05-09 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-10 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-10 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-10 |
| Date published | 2012-05-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kratky, Andreas |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hoberman, Perry Valanejad, Kurosh Clark, Andre Bolas, Mark |
| Abstract | Combiform is a novel digital gaming console featuring four combinable handheld controllers. It is a new and unique tangible gaming interface that stresses the importance of co-located, co-attentive social interactions among players. In particular, multiple players may freely combine and lock together their handheld game controllers, thereby creating a very flexible collective and transformable tangible interface. Combiform emphasizes social interaction through controller-to-controller contact. The platform and its 10 games introduce novel, tangible and physical co-attentive experiences that are not found in traditional co-located gaming platforms using mimetic interfaces (e.g. Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect). The project is the first game console especially designed for a new emerging digital game genre – Communal Casual Game. The new game genre captures a perspective of integrating classical folk game design approach with digital elements; a perspective that uses old form of rules to create new types of play. |
| Keyword | game controller; co-attentive; co-located; social gaming; social presence; tangible user interface; joint gesture; coliberation; funology; mimetic interfaces; communal casual game; folk game |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Yee, Edmond C. |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-YeeEdmondC-843.pdf |
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| Full text | COMBIFORM: A CONSOLE FOR THE NEW COMMUNAL CASUAL GAME GENRE by Edmond C. Yee A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF FINE ARTS (INTERACTIVE MEDIA) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Edmond C. Yee |
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