ABSTRACT
Mixed reality games encompass a variety of gaming genres such as pervasive games, location-based games, and augmented reality games. They enrich the physical world with technology to create new and exciting possibilities for games – but at the same time introduce new challenges. In order to facilitate the collaborative design of such games, we have developed our Mixed Reality Game Cards. These are a deck of ideation cards that synthesize design knowledge about mixed reality games. We describe how we developed these cards and give examples for design sessions conducted with them. We discuss the role of random card draw and domain extrinsic Theme Cards for inspiration during rapid idea generation, and how our specialized card types (Opportunity Cards, Question Cards, Challenge Cards) deck support more in-depth idea generation.
