Self-refining games using player analytics

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Stanton, Matt ^a   Humberston, Ben ^a   Kase, Brandon ^a   O'Brien, James F ^b   Fatahalian, Kayvon ^a   Treuille, Adrien ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data driven animation; Games; Player models

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOBILE DEVICES; REFINING; ANIMATION;

DATA-DRIVEN ANIMATION; DATA-DRIVEN SIMULATION; DYNAMICAL STATE; GAMES; PRE-COMPUTATION; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING STRATEGY; VISUAL ARTIFACTS; GAME; GAMEPLAY; LARGE SPACES; PLAYER MODELING; STATE-SPACE;

ANIMATION; REFINING;

EID: 84905729804     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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