In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
This paper explains SAMO, an educational game for Spanish orthography. The game is an evolution of MITO, which was evaluated with real students. Using information obtained from th...
Cristina Carmona, David Bueno, Miguel A. Jim&eacut...
Dialogue in commercial games is largely created by teams of writers and designers who hand-author every line of dialogue and hand-specify the dialogue structure using finite state...
This paper proposes an approach to automatically adapt game AI to the environment of the game (i.e., the socalled map). In the approach, a particular map is first analysed for sp...
Laurens van der Blom, Sander Bakkes, Pieter Spronc...
The described dissertation focuses on social regulation of user behavior within virtual social spaces. A multi-year field study of two fantasy-based game MUDs (multi-user dungeons...