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Updated GameTools: Libraries for Easier Advanced Graphics in Serious Gaming

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Simulations, Serious Games and Their Applications

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Advanced graphics effects can be difficult to create and implement by nonexperts. We present here multiplatform, multigame engine libraries, designed to simplify the use of efficient state-of-the-art computer graphics algorithms in the fields of geometry and illumination. A summary of our experiences updating and porting the libraries is included, with recommendations possibly useful to other programmers. The main features of the updated libraries are described. Two serious games which use the geometry libraries are presented here as use cases, both dealing with teaching history to middle school students. Finally, we show an implementation of a board game played in Europe since roman times (of interest to museums specialized in medieval or roman times) which uses the illumination libraries.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the research projects coded TIN2010-21089-C03-01 and IPT-2011-0885-430000 (Spanish Commission for Science and Technology) and by grants VALTEC09-2-0118 and 2009SGR643 (Catalan Government).

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  1. Institute of Informatics and Applications, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Rubén Jesús García

  2. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

    Jesús Gumbau

  3. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    László Szirmay-Kalos

  4. University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Mateu Sbert

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García, R.J., Gumbau, J., Szirmay-Kalos, L., Sbert, M. (2014). Updated GameTools: Libraries for Easier Advanced Graphics in Serious Gaming. In: Cai, Y., Goei, S. (eds) Simulations, Serious Games and Their Applications. Gaming Media and Social Effects. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-32-0_12

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