Playmakers in multiplayer game communities: Their importance and motivations for participation

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 265, Issue , 2005, Pages 334-337

  Salovaara, Antti ^a   Johnson, Mikael ^b   Toiskallio, Kalle ^b   Tiitta, Sauli ^a   Turpeinen, Marko ^a  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

communities; computer games; motivations; multiplayer games

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITIES; COMPUTER GAME; EMPIRICAL DATA; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; MULTIPLAYERS; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; ROLE-PLAYING GAME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 47749152136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1178477.1178540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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