Group movement in world of warcraft battlegrounds

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-404

  Miller, John L ^a,b   Crowcroft, Jon ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avatar movement; Hotspots; Massively multiplayer online games; Waypoint navigation; World of Warcraft Battlegrounds

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AVATAR MOVEMENT; HOTSPOTS; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; WAYPOINTS; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

INTERNET;

EID: 78349232038     PISSN: 14624613     EISSN: 17418003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2010.036837     Document Type: Article

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