Search Results - "Debeauvais, Thomas"
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The “lonely gamer” revisited
Published in Entertainment computing (01-01-2014)“…•A large survey of WoW players shows robust patterns of real-life (RL) sociality while gaming.•Most people played with RL friends & family; about half made new…”
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Challenge and Retention in Games
Published 2016“…Game designers and researchers agree that the main motivation for starting playing a game is challenge. It is only a small step to say that when the game…”
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Business Intelligence in World of Warcraft
Published 01-01-2012“…Games have evolved from the arcade coin slots of the 70s to Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) costing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop…”
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Challenge and Retention in Games
“…Game designers and researchers agree that the main motivation for starting playing a game is challenge. It is only a small step to say that when the game…”
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Business Intelligence in World of Warcraft
“…Games have evolved from the arcade coin slots of the 70s to Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) costing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop…”
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Evolution of scalability with synchronized state in virtual environments
Published in 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2012) Proceedings (01-10-2012)“…Developing scalable software architectures to suit virtual environment applications has been a challenge even in face of extraordinary advancements in…”
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RESTful Massively Multi-user Virtual Environments: A feasibility study
Published in 2012 IEEE International Games Innovation Conference (01-09-2012)“…The increased bandwidth made available to consumers in the past decade has enabled the spread of Massively Multi-user Virtual Environments (MMVEs). MMVEs…”
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RCAT: A RESTful client-scalable architecture
Published in 2011 10th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (01-10-2011)“…In interactive multi-user virtual environments, the computation and bandwidth required to perform real-time simulation increases quadratically with the number…”
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