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CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Battle of Botcraft: fighting bots in online games with human observational proofs
The abuse of online games by automated programs, known as game bots, for gaining unfair advantages has plagued millions of participating players with escalating severity in recent...
Steven Gianvecchio, Zhenyu Wu, Mengjun Xie, Hainin...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On the Sensitivity of Online Game Playing Time to Network QoS
Abstract— Online gaming is one of the most profitable businesses on the Internet. Among various threats to continuous player subscriptions, network lags are particularly notorio...
Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, Guo-Shiuan Wang, Chun-Y...
CSCW
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Doing Virtually Nothing: Awareness and Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds
To date the most popular and sophisticated types of virtual worlds can be found in the area of video gaming, especially in the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Ga...
Robert J. Moore, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Eric Nickell
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
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...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 21 days 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...