Portability of Serious Game Software Components

Wim van der Vegt; Wim Westera; Hub Kurvers; Enkhbold  Nyamsuren

doi:10.1109/CIG.2019.8848094

Portability of Serious Game Software Components

Wim van der Vegt^*, Wim Westera, Hub Kurvers, Enkhbold Nyamsuren

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Abstract

In recent studies, a component-based software engineering framework (RCSAA) has been proposed to accommodate the reuse of game software components across diverse game engines, platforms, and programming languages. This study follows up on this by a more detailed investigation of the portability of a RCSAA-compliant game software component across three principal programming languages: C#, JavaScript (TypeScript), and Java, respectively, and their integration in game engines for these languages. One operational RCSAA-compliant component in C# is taken as the starting point for porting to the other languages. For each port, a detailed analysis of language-specific features is carried out to examine and preserve the equivalence of transcompiled code. Also, implementation patterns of required RSCAA constructs are analysed for each programming language and practical workaround solutions are proposed. This study demonstrates that the software patterns and design solutions used in the RCSAA are easily portable across programming languages based on very different programming paradigms. It thereby establishes the practicability of the RSCAA architecture and the associated integration of RCSAA-compliant game components under real-world conditions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Conference on Games 2019
Subtitle of host publication	London, United Kingdom 20-23 August 2019
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	221-228
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728118840
ISBN (Print)	9781728118857
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848094
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019
Event	IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2019 - Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Aug 2019 → 23 Aug 2019 http://ieee-cog.org/2019/

Conference

Conference	IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2019
Abbreviated title	COG 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	20/08/19 → 23/08/19
Internet address	http://ieee-cog.org/2019/

Keywords

RAGE
Serious game
applied game
asset
component
gamification
portability
reuse

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