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FPLAY
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Construction of cybertypes in Lineage II: an analysis of game interfaces and support documentation
This paper discusses social exclusion by analyzing the avatar creation interface of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) Lineage II. We use a previously deve...
Victoria McArthur, Tyler M. Pace, Aaron R. Houssia...
FCT
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Graph Searching, Elimination Trees, and a Generalization of Bandwidth
The bandwidth minimization problem has a long history and a number of practical applications. In this paper we introduce a natural extension of bandwidth to partially ordered layo...
Fedor V. Fomin, Pinar Heggernes, Jan Arne Telle
NETGAMES
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Load balancing for massively multiplayer online games
Supporting thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of players is a requirement that must be satisfied when delivering server based online gaming as a commercial concern. Such a...
Fengyun Lu, Simon E. Parkin, Graham Morgan
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Intelligent lighting for a better gaming experience
Lighting assumes many aesthetic and communicative functions in game environments that affect attention, immersion, visibility, and emotions. Game environments are dynamic and high...
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Joseph A. Zupko, Keith Miron
LREC
2010
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15 years 8 months ago
The PlayMancer Database: A Multimodal Affect Database in Support of Research and Development Activities in Serious Game Environm
The present paper reports on a recent effort that resulted in the establishment of a unique multimodal affect database, referred to as the PlayMancer database. This database was c...
Theodoros Kostoulas, Otilia Kocsis, Todor Ganchev,...