Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this p...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
Leisure is a very important aspect in our everyday life; and gaming is one of the main ways to it. Depending on the particular situation of each person, the way of playing could be...
Designing agents whose behavior challenges human players adequately is a key issue in computer games development. This work presents a novel technique, based on reinforcement lear...
Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Hugo Santana, Vinc...
We are concerned with the fundamental problem of event ordering in multiplayer peer-to-peer games. Event ordering, even without faults, requires all-to-all message passing with at...
Chris GauthierDickey, Virginia Mary Lo, Daniel Zap...
Large-scale multiplayer online games require considerable investment in hosting infrastructures. However, the difficulty of predicting the success of a new title makes investing ...