Gameplay analysis through state projection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-8

  Andersen, Erik ^a   Liu, Yun Enedu ^a   Apter, Ethan ^a   Boucher Genesse, François ^b   Popović, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data visualization; Games; Playtesting

Indexed keywords

DESIGN DECISIONS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; GAME ANALYSIS; GAME EXPERIENCE; GAMEPLAY ANALYSIS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; PUZZLE GAMES; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77955166608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822348.1822349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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