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IDEAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Influence Maps and Cellular Automata for Reactive Game Agents
Agents make up an important part of game worlds, ranging from the characters and monsters that live in the world to the armies that the player controls. Despite their importance, a...
Penelope Sweetser, Janet Wiles
ICANN
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolution of Heuristics for Give-Away Checkers
The efficacy of two evolutionary approaches to the problem of generation of heuristical linear and non-linear evaluation functions in the game of give-away checkers is tested in th...
Magdalena Kusiak, Karol Waledzik, Jacek Mandziuk
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Game Engineering for a Multiprocessor Architecture
This paper explores the idea that future game consoles and computers may no longer be single processor units, but instead symmetrical multiprocessor units. If this were to occur g...
Abdennour El Rhalibi, Steve Costa, David England
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Pervasive Interface; Tracing the Magic Circle
This paper is an addition to the discourse surrounding interface theory and pervasive games. A buzzword by nature, the term ´interface´ needs to be investigated and redefined in...
Eva Nieuwdorp
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Shadowplay: Simulated Illumination in Game Worlds
Despite the fact that there are currently a number of enjoyable digital games in which light plays a key role, we lack a vocabulary with which to discuss simulated illumination in...
Simon Niedenthal
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Designing Goals for Online Role-Players
The increasing popularity of persistent worlds and the predicted rise of pervasive gaming, both having a strong inherent potential for role-playing, stress a classical challenge o...
Markus Montola
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Simulating the Storytelling Qualities of Life: Telling Stories with the Sims
The stories vs. games debate has been prominent during the early years of game studies, and few other perspectives have been introduced to the discussion. In the paper, Game Resea...
Satu Heliö
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Push. Play: An Examination of the Gameplay Button
At the center of the video game experience is the interface. Before a player grabs the first powerup or meets the first obstacle, the would-be-adventurer must accept the limitatio...
Stephen Griffin
AIED
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Computer Games as Intelligent Learning Environments: A River Ecosystem Adventure
Our goal in this work has been to bring together the entertaining and flow characteristics of video game environments with proven learning theories to advance the state of the art ...
Jason Tan, Chris Beers, Ruchi Gupta, Gautam Biswas
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Dissecting server-discovery traffic patterns generated by multiplayer first person shooter games
We study the ‘background traffic’ resulting from tens of thousands of networked first person shooter (FPS) clients searching for servers on which to play. Networked, multiplay...
Sebastian Zander, David Kennedy, Grenville J. Armi...