Game Engineering for Hybrid Board Games

Hybrid board games integrate aspects of aphysical board game and a computer game. Such a setup creates new possibilitiesfor game design, but also defines new challenges and open questions. This paperinvestigates on several aspects of hybrid board games including: (i) usefulallocation of tasks and game elements between the analog and the digital part.(ii) hardware platforms for hybrid board games, and (iii) software frameworkssupporting the development of the digital part of a hybrid board game. In asecond part the paper reports about setting and results of a hybrid board gamejam that was organized as a pre-conference event of the Future and Reality ofGames Conference 2019.