Technology trees in digital gaming

Proceedings of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: "Envisioning Future Media Environments", MindTrek 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 27-34

  Heinimäki, Teemu J ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Digital gaming; Gaming; Technology trees; Techtrees

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; DIGITAL GAMES; DIGITAL GAMING; GAMING; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; TECHTREES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORESTRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; FORESTRY; TECHNOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84870527118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393132.2393139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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