Digging deeper into platform game level design: Session size and sequential features

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7248 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 275-284

  Shaker, Noor ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; AFFECTIVE STATE; BUILDING MODEL; FREQUENT SEQUENCES; GAME EXPERIENCE; LEVEL DESIGN; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; RECENT TRENDS; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84859351308     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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