Massively Multiplayer Online Games continue to grow and attract more users. The social aspect of MMOs differentiates them from single person games, increase user loyalty and often...
Images are widely used in media contexts such as web design, games and video animation. The process of creating interesting images can be enjoyable if a useful tool is involved. I...
This paper explores the notion of ethical engagement in interactive media through an examination of the Splinter Cell series of games. Keywords Interactive Media, Ethics, Stealth ...
Unmanned vehicles (UV’s) are increasingly being employed in civil and military domains often for operations in dangerous environments. Typically these vehicles require some leve...
First-person computer games are a popular modern video game genre. A new method is proposed, the Directional Propagation Cache, that takes advantage of the very common portal spat...
Immersive and engaging are words often used interchangeably to describe the player’s experience of gameplay without clear distinction between what these terms refer to, and with...
This paper addresses the vast practice encompassed under the placeholder term polymorphic creations: contemporary tie-ins, pervasive gaming, telematic arts and so on. A position i...
How can we help people design well-formed and innovative games? The design Patterns of Christopher Alexander is one methodology that has been proposed to assist in the design of w...
The telling and understanding of stories is a universal part of human experience. If we could reproduce even part of the process inside a computer, it could expand the possibiliti...