Development of Games for SET-TOP-BOXES with Brazilian´s Middleware GINGA-NCL

This paper aims to present the process of creating games for set-top-boxes with Brazilian´s middleware GINGA embedded on it, focusing on GINGA-NCL, since game´s pre-production until the end of the demonstration (DEMO) version developed by the Research Group of Information´s Technology on Digital TV of the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da bahia in conjunction with the Core of Computational Modeling of SENAI / CIMATEC. All games in this text have been programmed in the language Lua coupled to NCL and the tests to evaluate the game play were performed using the emulator Ginga-NCL Player and the Virtual Set-Top-Box (STB) Ginga-NCL. Both softwares simulate the needed equipment for televisions that do not have specific tuner for receiving digital signal.