HAX: Queen of Leisure Interactive Experience

How can travel agents make the process of booking cruises more enticing? What can they offer that enables their customer to experience the culture and fun before actually making the purchase? How can we take a stationary analog gaming experience and replicate it in a portable, virtual way while retaining the best parts of the traditional experience?

Cruise ships are notorious for many things –never-ending midnight buffets, glitzy stage productions, bad comedians – but shuffleboard has been the leisure sport of choice, going back as far as the Titanic and Queen Mary. We set out to find a more creative and interactive way to entice vacationers back to the idea of cruising by creating an interactive shuffleboard game that melds digital and physical game play. Based upon traditional deck shuffleboard, the game will allow users to shoot using a real cue, but with a virtual puck moving across a digital court.