Peer-to-peer architectures for massively multiplayer online games: A survey

A Yahyavi, B Kemme - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2013 - dl.acm.org
Scalability, fast response time, and low cost are of utmost importance in designing a
successful massively multiplayer online game. The underlying architecture plays an …

CMX: The effects of an educational MMORPG on learning and teaching computer programming

C Malliarakis, M Satratzemi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer programming has for decades posed several difficulties for students of all
educational levels. A number of teaching approaches have been proposed over the years …

Cloud gaming QoE models for deriving video encoding adaptation strategies

I Slivar, L Skorin-Kapov, M Suznjevic - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Cloud gaming has been recognized as a promising shift in the online game industry, with
the aim being to deliver high-quality graphics games to any type of end user device. The …

The playtime principle: Large-scale cross-games interest modeling

R Sifa, C Bauckhage, A Drachen - 2014 IEEE conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The collection and analysis of behavioral telemetry in digital games has in the past five
years become an integral part of game development. One of the key challenges in game …

A multi-dimensional view of QoE: the ARCU model

L Skorin-Kapov, M Varela - 2012 Proceedings of the 35th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding and modeling the wide range of influence factors that impact end user
Quality of Experience (QoE) and go beyond traditional Quality of Service (QoS) parameters …

Role of social capital in adolescents' online gaming: A longitudinal study focused on the moderating effect of social capital between gaming time and psychosocial …

GM Kim, EJ Jeong, JY Lee, JH Yoo - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adolescents often create social relationships with their gaming peers who take on the role of
offline friends and peer groups. Through collaboration and competition in the games, the …

The impact of video encoding parameters and game type on QoE for cloud gaming: A case study using the steam platform

I Slivar, M Suznjevic… - … International Workshop on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we analyze the impact of different game types and video adaptation strategies
on Quality of Experience (QoE) in cloud gaming. We focus on image quality and frame rate …

The discourse of online live streaming on twitch: communication between conversation and commentary

D Recktenwald - 2018 - theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk
Live streaming on Twitch is a new form of online broadcasting of video games. Aside from
the visual game, it features computer-mediated communication between a speaking …

Game categorization for deriving QoE-driven video encoding configuration strategies for cloud gaming

I Slivar, M Suznjevic, L Skorin-Kapov - ACM Transactions on Multimedia …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Cloud gaming has been recognized as a promising shift in the online game industry, with
the aim of implementing the “on demand” service concept that has achieved market success …

Why MMORPG players do what they do: relating motivations to action categories

M Suznjevic, M Matijasevic - International Journal of …, 2010 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper presents an analysis of relations between player motivation and behaviour in a
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). Player motivation is …