"I'm overburdened!" an empirical study of the player, the avatar, and the gameworld

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jørgensen, Kristine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Avatar; Empirical studies; Game system; Gameworld; Player

Indexed keywords

AVATAR; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GAME SYSTEM; GAMEWORLD; PLAYER;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84873359759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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