Browser Games: The New Frontier of Social Gaming

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 84, Issue , 2010, Pages 349-355

  Vanhatupa, Juha Matti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Browser Games; Game Analysis; Game Categorization

Indexed keywords

BROWSER GAMES; GAME ANALYSIS; GAME CATEGORIZATION; IN BROWSERS; SOCIAL GAMING; SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 80053097584     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14171-3_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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