Powwow: A tool for collaborative software jam sessions (original) (raw)

Abstract—The increasing time, complexity and cost of today video game development projects demand for new software tools capable to support the development of fast runnable video game prototypes. This paper presents our conceptual solution for building runnable video game prototypes. For editing video game levels we added editing capabilities in a mobile software tool. We present a mobile software tool which supports editing video game levels. Furthermore, the tool supports testing of previously designed levels with the help of design recognition mechanisms that facilitate loading and simulating of games. The tool supports distributed, collaborative design sessions as it is based on a client server software architecture. Game designers collaborate by sharing their designs on a file server from where the files can be pulled by other users for further editing. This tool is used for software jam sessions in order to support local collaborative game level design. In addition to the tool...

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