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NETGAMES
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A peer-to-peer architecture for massive multiplayer online games
Massive Multiplayer Online Games with their virtual gaming worlds grow in user numbers as well as in the size of the virtual worlds. With this growth comes a significant increase...
Thorsten Hampel, Thomas Bopp, Robert Hinn
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The usability of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games: designing for new users
This study examines the usability challenges faced by new players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), one of the fastest-growing segments of the video ga...
Steve Cornett
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this p...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
CHI
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Project massive: a study of online gaming communities
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) continue to be a popular and lucrative sector of the gaming market. Project Massive was created to assess MMOG players’ social experie...
A. Fleming Seay, William J. Jerome, Kevin Sang Lee...
MMM
2010
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Characterizing Virtual Populations in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Abstract. Understanding player distributions, sessions, and movements in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) is essential for research in scalable architectur...
Daniel Pittman, Chris GauthierDickey