Language-driven development of videogames: The 〈e-game〉 experience

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4161 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 153-164

  Moreno Ger, Pablo ^a   Martínez Ortiz, Iván ^b   Sierra, José Luis ^a   Fernández Manjón, Baltasar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Centro de Estudios Superiores Felipe II   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adventure games; Development process; Document oriented approach; Edutainment; Game engine; Languagedriven approach; Storyboard markup language; Videogames

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

ADVENTURE GAMES; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DOCUMENT-ORIENTED APPROACH; STORYBOARD MARKUP LANGUAGE;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33750065388     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11872320_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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