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...
—With users increasingly focused on an online world, an emerging challenge for the network infrastructure is the need to support Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (...
: Serious games are defined as games with a purpose. These games serve a purpose beyond play in difference to games, whose purpose is nothing than the play activity itself. Human C...
Lars Harzem, Tobias Hartge, Carolin Hubatsch, Kevi...
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games have become increasingly popular. However, their operation is costly, as game servers must be maintained. To reduce these costs, we aim at provi...