Measuring cooperative gameplay pacing in World of Warcraft

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 77-83

  Ashton, Martin ^a   Verbrugge, Clark ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer games; Social games; Tools; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; COOPERATIVE SCENARIOS; GAMEPLAY; LEVEL OF DIFFICULTIES; MMORPGS; NON-TRIVIAL; PLAYABILITY; PLUG-INS; SOCIAL GAMES; VIDEO GAME; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; TOOLS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84858982294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2159365.2159376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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