DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology

Evgeny Stemasov; Tobias Wagner; Ali Askari; Jessica Janek; Omid Rajabi; Anja Schikorr; Julian Frommel; Jan Gugenheimer; Enrico Rukzio

doi:10.1145/3613904.3642243

DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology

Evgeny Stemasov, Tobias Wagner, Ali Askari, Jessica Janek, Omid Rajabi, Anja Schikorr, Julian Frommel, Jan Gugenheimer, Enrico Rukzio

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Hybrid board games (HBGs) augment their analog origins digitally (e.g., through apps) and are an increasingly popular pastime activity. Continuous world and character development and customization, known to facilitate engagement in video games, remain rare in HBGs. If present, they happen digitally or imaginarily, often leaving physical aspects generic. We developed DungeonMaker, a fabrication-augmented HBG bridging physical and digital game elements: 1) the setup narrates a story and projects a digital game board onto a laser cutter; 2) DungeonMaker assesses player-crafted artifacts; 3) DungeonMaker’s modified laser head senses and moves player- and non-player figures, and 4) can physically damage figures. An evaluation (n = 4 3) indicated that DungeonMaker provides an engaging experience, may support players’ connection to their figures, and potentially spark novices’ interest in fabrication. DungeonMaker provides a rich constellation to play HBGs by blending aspects of craft and automation to couple the physical and digital elements of an HBG tightly.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400703300
ISBN (Print)	9798400703300
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642243
Publication status	Published - May 2024

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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We thank our survey and study participants, the reviewers of the manuscript, and the contributors to the Printrun software ecosystem. We further thank Regan Mandryk for providing feedback on the concept. This research was partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through the project \u201CDemocratic and Sustainable Personal Design and Fabrication through In-situ Co-Design and Previsualization\u201D (Project number: 525038300). This work has been co-funded by the LOEWE initiative (Hesse, Germany) within the emergenCITY center.

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	525038300
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Keywords

3D-Printers
Board Games
Craft Games
Fabrication Games
Hybrid Board Games
Laser Cutters
Personal Fabrication
Playful Fabrication

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Stemasov, E., Wagner, T., Askari, A., Janek, J., Rajabi, O., Schikorr, A., Frommel, J., Gugenheimer, J., & Rukzio, E. (2024). DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology. In CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems Article 328 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642243

Stemasov, Evgeny ; Wagner, Tobias ; Askari, Ali et al. / DungeonMaker: Embedding Tangible Creation and Destruction in Hybrid Board Games through Personal Fabrication Technology. CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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