Repairing games at runtime or, how we learned to stop worrying and love emergence

IEEE Software

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 53-59

  Lewis, Chris ^a   Whitehead, Jim ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

error handling and recovery; games; reliability

Indexed keywords

ERROR HANDLING AND RECOVERY; GAMES; GAMING EXPERIENCES; RUNTIMES; UNDESIRABLE STATE;

EID: 80051744623     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.87     Document Type: Article

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