Scene-Driver: reusing broadcast animation content for engaging, narratively coherent games

Scene-Driver is a software toolkit for the reuse of broadcast animation content to provide new engaging experiences for children. It has been developed and tested using content from the children's television series "Tiny Planets". Scene-Driver can be used to produce variations on a domino-like game. When playing, the child selects from a set of tiles that depict, for example, characters from the series. The child manipulates the direction of a story in the Tiny Planet world by their choice of tile. The successful selection of a tile will result in a scene from the show being played. A scene is defined as a section from an episode which has certain self-contained narrative elements such as

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AVI
• Authors: Annika Wolff, Paul Mulholland, Zdenek Zdráhal
• Keywords: AVI 2004, Broadcast Animation Content, Children's Television Series, Software Engineering, Tiny Planet