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DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Addressing social dilemmas and fostering cooperation through computer games
The concept of social dilemmas can be used to understand social situations all around us. I am looking at identity formation to help understand why people make the decisions they ...
Mark Chen
DIGRA
2003
Springer
15 years 3 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...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Albert Goes Narrative Contracting
RPG’s (Role Playing Games) and improvisational theatre have some obvious similarities. Both require the participants to work together in real-time to construct dynamic narrative...
Ken Newman, Robert Grigg
CGI
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Providing Full Awareness to Distributed Virtual Environments Based on Peer-to-Peer Architectures
In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer onl...
Pedro Morillo, W. Moncho, Juan M. Orduña, J...
LCN
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Considerations of SCTP Retransmission Delays for Thin Streams
The popularity of distributed interactive applications has exploded in the last few years. For example, massive multi-player online games have become a fast growing, multi-million...
Jon Pedersen, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen