Mining game statistics from web services: A world of warcraft armory case study

FDG 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 100-107

  Lewis, Chris ^a   Wardrip Fruin, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Video game; Web service; World of warcraft

Indexed keywords

QUALITATIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; VIDEO GAME;

DATA MINING; WEB SERVICES;

EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES;

EID: 77955150109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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