Game Dynamics Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content

This book offers a compendium of best practices in game dynamics. It covers a wide range of dynamic game elements ranging from player behavior over artificial intelligence to procedural content generation. Such dynamics make virtual worlds more lively and

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Game Dynamics Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content Generation

Game Dynamics

Oliver Korn Newton Lee •

Editors

Game Dynamics Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content Generation

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Editors Oliver Korn Offenburg University Offenburg Germany

ISBN 978-3-319-53087-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53088-8

Newton Lee Newton Lee Laboratories, LLC Tujunga, CA USA

ISBN 978-3-319-53088-8

(eBook)

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Contents

A Very Short History of Dynamic and Procedural Content Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Blatz and Oliver Korn Procedural Content Generation in the Game Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alba Amato

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Design, Dynamics, Experience (DDE): An Advancement of the MDA Framework for Game Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfgang Walk, Daniel Görlich and Mark Barrett

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Procedural Synthesis of Gunshot Sounds Based on Physically Motivated Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hüseyin Hacıhabiboğlu

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Dynamic Player Pairing: Quantifying the Effects of Competitive Versus Cooperative Attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gerry Chan, Anthony Whitehead and Avi Parush

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FaceMaker—A Procedural Face Generator to Foster Character Design Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valentin Schwind, Katrin Wolf and Niels Henze

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