Ghost worlds – Time and consequence in MMORPGs

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

Volumn 4326 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 300-311

  Tychsen, Anders ^a   Hitchens, Michael ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer games; Consequence; MMORPG; Storytelling; Time

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CONSEQUENCE; MMORPG; NARRATIVE ANALYSIS; PAPER ANALYSIS; PLAYER VIEW; STORYTELLING; TIME; WORLD VIEWS;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 77949412265     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11944577_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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