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DIGRA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Developing a hybrid of MMORPG and LARP using usability methods: the case of Takkar
This paper examines the idea of combining Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) and MMORPG into a hybrid game named Takkar. We developed three versions of Takkar in an iterative fashion...
Laust Juul Christensen, Thomas Tae-Yang Jør...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Mining for Gold Farmers: Automatic Detection of Deviant Players in MMOGs
Abstract—Gold farming refers to the illicit practice of gathering and selling virtual goods in online games for real money. Although around one million gold farmers engage in gol...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Brian Keegan, Jaideep Sr...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Intelligent Trading Agents for Massively Multi-player Game Economies
As massively multi-player gaming environments become more detailed, developing agents to populate these virtual worlds as capable non-player characters poses an increasingly compl...
John Reeder, Gita Sukthankar, Michael Georgiopoulo...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Churn Prediction in MMORPGs: A Social Influence Based Approach
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are computer based games in which players interact with one another in the virtual world. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs h...
Jaya Kawale, Aditya Pal, Jaideep Srivastava
VR
2007
IEEE
179views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
On the Characterization of Peer-To-Peer Distributed Virtual Environments
Large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multi-player online games in th...
Silvia Rueda, Pedro Morillo, Juan M. Orduña...