Quests in context: A comparative analysis of discworld and world of warcraft

Game Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Karlsen, Faltin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Co production; Developers; Discworld; MMORPGs; MUDs; Players; Quests; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349147304     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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