While psychologists analyze network game-playing behavior in terms of players’ social interaction and experience, understanding user behavior is equally important to network res...
— Modern online multiplayer games are complex heterogeneous distributed systems comprised of servers and untrusted clients, which are often engineered under considerable commerci...
Peter Laurens, Richard F. Paige, Phillip J. Brooke...
This study examines the usability challenges faced by new players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), one of the fastest-growing segments of the video ga...
The increasing popularity of persistent worlds and the predicted rise of pervasive gaming, both having a strong inherent potential for role-playing, stress a classical challenge o...
Abstract- Recently, P2P (peer-to-peer) online game systems have attracted a great deal of public attention. They work without central servers, thus, the maintenance and organizatio...