An Intelligent Multimodal Mixed Reality Real-Time Strategy Game

This paper presents a mixed reality tabletop role-playing game with a novel combination of interaction styles and gameplay mechanics. Our contribution extends previous approaches by abandoning the traditional turn-based gameplay in favor of simultaneous real-time interaction. The increased cognitive and physical load during the simultaneous control of multiple game characters is counteracted by two features: First, certain game characters are equipped with AI-driven capabilities to become semi-autonomous virtual agents. Second, (groups of) these agents can be instructed by high-level commands via a multimodal-speech and gesture-interface.