Follow the Leader: A Scalable Approach for Realistic Group Behavior of Roaming NPCs in MMO Games

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 706-712

  Maggiorini, Dario ^a   Ripamonti, Laura Anna ^a   Panzeri, Samuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

DETERMINISTICS; FOLLOW THE LEADERS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MOVEMENT MODEL; MOVEMENT PATTERN; NATURAL MOVEMENTS; NON-PLAYING CHARACTERS; SCALABLE APPROACH; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 85030550854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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