Solving the balance problem of massively multiplayer online role-playing games using coevolutionary programming

Chen, Haoyang; Mori, Yuichi; Matsuba, Ikuo

doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2014.01.011

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“…These characteristics may trigger the player's learning and intimate behavior in the game [21]. Players include various characters from the virtual world [3], where players can create and control their own virtual avatars, and engage in the game with other players. In such places, players might be allies or have rival relationships with each other [22], and this offers players a wide variety of gameplays and options that allow players to interact with other players in the virtual world.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Chuang¹

2020

Sustainability

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With the development and proliferation of online games, understanding how to seize these players has become an essential issue for academic scholars and practitioners. Based on virtual experience in online gaming communities and consumer engagement perspectives, this research developed and verified a multi-dimensional framework for assessing how to retain and encourage players continuous dedication and engagement behaviors. The proposed framework illustrates the interrelationships among six constructs in online gaming communities: social presence, telepresence, cognitive social identity, affective social identity, psychological engagement, and behavioral engagement. Data collected from 338 players who have experience in engagement behaviors in online gaming communities. The collected data were examined against the research framework using structural equation modeling (SEM). The research findings offer sufficient evidence that behavioral engagement is influenced by psychological engagement, which consecutively, are determined by cognitive social identity, affective social identity, social presence, and telepresence. More importantly, the mediating analysis indicated that psychological engagement is a crucial mediator, meaning that consumer engagement is a sequential process, and behavioral engagement cannot independently exist without psychological engagement. Taken together, the research results of this study have several critical theoretical and practical implications for future academic researchers and practitioners to have better understanding of consumer engagement. By doing so, the game companies can have sustainable competitive advantage and support sustainable development.

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Section: Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have been attractive and players around the world have become highly attached to them. Players can build their own team with friends or people from all sides and play against other players' teams [3].…”

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Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Chuang¹

2020

Sustainability

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“…Coevolutionary algorithms are a class of evolutionary algorithms inspired by the simultaneous evolution process involving two or more species. Recently, various engineering problems have been solved with this approach (Blecic, Cecchini, & Trunfio, 2014;Chen, Mori, & Matsuba, 2014;Ladjici & Boudour, 2011;Ladjici, Tiguercha, & Boudour, 2014;Wang & Chen, 2013a;Wang, Cheng, & Huang, 2014). Coevolutionary algorithms are categorized into two groups depending on the type of interaction among the species, which can be either competitive or cooperative.…”

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A cooperative coevolutionary algorithm for the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem

Oliveira

Enayatifar

Sadaei

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Expert Systems with Applications

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“…In [29], genetic algorithms were applied to find balanced character skills for role-playing games. This work was done on a small scale, with large simplifications of the custom game model and a basic intelligence that made decisions based on the rules.…”

Section: The Problem Of Balancing Game Valuesmentioning

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Branched Structure Component for a Video Game Scenario Prototype Generator

Sahibgareeva

Kugurakova

2021

Scientific Conference “Scientific Services &Amp; Internet”

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The task of automating the routine work of computer game writers, narrative designers, set forth in earlier works, has been continued in the presented work. The issues of visualization of branching narrative structures of computer games are considered, the analysis of various approaches to visualization of the plot and other important components of a video game, such as, for example, automatic balancing of quantitative parameters, is carried out. The paper presents the chosen technological stack and gives specific solutions for storage in the form of a structured scenario, allowing the generation of continuing story branches and testing the narrative prototyping stage using the automatically generated text novel.

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Solving the balance problem of massively multiplayer online role-playing games using coevolutionary programming

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

Promoting Consumer Engagement in Online Communities through Virtual Experience and Social Identity

A cooperative coevolutionary algorithm for the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem

Branched Structure Component for a Video Game Scenario Prototype Generator

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