Explorations in player motivations: Game mods

2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, GAME-ON ASIA 2010 - 2nd Asian Simulation Technology Conference, ASTEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 29-37

  Bostan, Barbaros ^a   Kaplancali, Ugur ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gameplay experience; Gaming mods; Human factors; Player motivations; Player psychology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOTIVATION;

GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCES; GAMING EXPERIENCES; GAMING MODS; MISSING FEATURES; PLAYER PSYCHOLOGY; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; USER CREATED CONTENT;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84922562056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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