Story creation in virtual game worlds

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-65

  Robertson, Judy ^a   Good, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; GAME DEVELOPMENT; STORYTELLING; TEAMWORK;

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 17044426337     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1039539.1039571     Document Type: Review

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