Thesis

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Title: Location-Based Digital Games Platform for Touristic Activities
Author: Rodolfo Silva
Supervisor: António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho
Company: Palcos da Realidade - Computação Gráfica, Lda - (3Decide) - http://www.3decide.com/

Short Description: When visiting new places it’s interesting to explore the area and see what kind of interesting aspects it has to offer. Yet, it would be interesting to give the tourists a more customized and interactive experience to explore that area and discover what landmarks and services it can provide.

Mobile devices evolve everyday and not exploring the full potential of the same is a waste. The evolution of mobile devices enables the creation of new innovating touristic services for territory exploration. There are also many support frameworks to develop good content for mobile devices.

For this thesis the main goal is to provide the tourists a new and interesting way of exploring an area. This is achieved by creating a storytelling game design where the tourists can explore the area while playing a customised game. There are two types of users, one being the client that uses the platform to create games, and the final user that is the player that is going to play the games created. The platform allows to create new games where the client can add scenarios and objects. These objects can be used in the scenario or combined with other objects to unlock passages to get to the final goal defined by the client.

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