Relevant information as a formalised approach to evaluate game mechanics

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 281-288

  Salge, Christoph ^a   Mahlmann, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Center for Computer Games Research   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AI and Games; Game Development; Information Theory; Strategic Games

Indexed keywords

GAME DESIGN; GAME DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL VALUES; SIMPLE GAMES; STRATEGIC GAME;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; MECHANICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 80051939901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITW.2010.5593344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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