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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 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
DIGRA
2003
Springer
13 years 8 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...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
An Online Community as a New Tribalism: The World of Warcraft
Massive, multiplayer online role-playing games foster rich social environments. Within the game, players can interact with other players, make friends, create and cultivate new on...
Thomas W. Brignall III, Thomas L. Van Valey
HPDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Scaling multiplayer online games using proxy-server replication: a case study of Quake 2
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are an increasingly popular class of real-time interactive distributed applications that require scalable architectures and parallelizat...
Jens Müller 0004, Sergei Gorlatch, Tobias Sch...