What is the LUTE Server? The LUTE Engine allows mixed reality games to be created easily within the Unity environment. It is a powerful flow engine and set of components, but is focused on single player experiences. The LUTE Server extends LUTE with multi-player functionality by providing a server application that can be used to…
What are the LUTE Ludonarrative Modules? The LoGaCulture Unity Toolkit/Engine (LUTE), is a modular framework for creating locative games and available fully open source (MIT license) on GitHub (https://github.com/LoGaCulture/LUTE). Consequentially many of LUTE’s modules allow the designer to deliver both narrative content and gameplay interactions to create Ludonarrative experiences. Initial research (both literature and with…
What is the LUTE AR Component? The LUTE AR Component includes a number of Augmented Reality (AR) orders that can be used to make the game interactable in AR – this involves placing, selecting, and moving, virtual 3D objects placed into real world scenes detected by the camera. The component includes orders that let the…
What are the LUTE Media Components? LUTE handles media by following the same process as the majority of Orders (where Orders are individual aspects of behaviour that are contained within a list on a Node, an object that exists during runtime which executes through the list of Orders based on a series of conditions). For…
What is Ludonarrative Engine? The ludonarrative engine implements patterns generally useful for story-driven locative cultural heritage (CH) games. Through our research in D5.1 and D5.2, and ethnographic research, we’ve discovered that games for CH in most cases support the grouping of content into time slices. We can leave the specific navigation mechanics to the game…
What is the “Creature Chorus”? “Creature Chorus” is an interactive digital narrative experience designed to bring awareness to the intricate relationships between humans and non-humans. It challenges the traditional nature-culture divide, showcasing how humans and the environment are inextricably intertwined in a complex web of relationships. The main purpose of the “Creature Chorus” is rooted…
What is RoPPi? Rock, Paper, Pigeon (RoPPi) is a Natureculture Heritage (NCH) Game, evolving from a board game to a future digital platform, that fosters deep engagement with Madeira’s natureculture heritage. As demonstrated in the research publications listed at the end of this page, play tests have revealed the game’s ability to enhance participation, inclusivity,…
What is the LUTE Authoring Tool? The LoGaCulture Unity Toolkit/Engine (LUTE), as a technology framework for creating mixed reality games, includes a range of tools and functions. This includes a comprehensive visual authoring tool (aka a creativity support tool) for building LUTE games using the framework available fully open source (MIT license) on GitHub (https://github.com/LoGaCulture/LUTE)….
What is LUTE? The LoGaCulture Unity Toolkit/Engine (LUTE) is a technology framework developed by Bournemouth University and University of Southampton as part of the LoGaCulture project. Built on top of the Unity engine LUTE is a total conversion plugin that provides a visual interface, libraries, and a toolkit for building mixed reality games within Unity….