Game Dynamics

Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content Generation

Buch | Hardcover

X, 177 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-53087-1 (ISBN)

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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 realistic and they also create the potential for moments of amazement and surprise. In many cases, game dynamics are driven by a combination of random seeds, player records and procedural algorithms. Games can even incorporate the player's real-world behavior to create dynamic responses. The best practices illustrate how dynamic elements improve the user experience and increase the replay value.
The book draws upon interdisciplinary approaches; researchers and practitioners from Game Studies, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology and other disciplines will find this book to be an exceptional resource of both creative inspiration and hands-on process knowledge.

Oliver Korn is a full professor for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at Offenburg University in Germany. He also is a certified project manager (German Chamber of Commerce, DIHK), professional member of the ACM and the IEEE and an evaluator for the European Commission.After completing his master focusing on Computational Linguistics, he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) and the Stuttgart Media University (HdM). He focused on HCI, especially simulations, gaming and gamification. In 2003, he co-founded KORION, a Fraunhofer spin-off developing simulations and games. As CEO, he was in charge of several national research projects and gained experience in countless industrial software development projects, both in the area of entertainment and business intelligence. In 2014, he received his PhD in computer science at the SimTech Excellence Cluster of the University of Stuttgart. His research is published in numerous international publications.Newton Lee is CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, president of the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS), adjunct professor at Woodbury University School of Media, Culture & Design (MCD), editor-in-chief of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computers in Entertainment, and education and media advisor for the United States Transhumanist Party.Previously, Lee was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company where he led the in-house Games Group in developing over 100 online games for Disney.com and DisneyBlast.com. He was the founder of Disney Online Technology Forum, creator of Bell Labs’ first-ever commercial AI tool, and inventor of the world’s first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library.Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He has been honored with a Michigan Leading Edge Technologies Award, two community development awards from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four volunteer project leadership awards from The Walt Disney Company.

Introduction.- A Very Short History of Dynamic and Procedural Content Generation.- Procedural Content Generation in the Game Industry.- Design, Dynamics, Experience (DDE): An Advancement of the MDA Framework for Game Design.- Procedural Synthesis of Gunshot Sounds based on Physically Motivated Models.- Dynamics Player Pairing: Quantifying the Effects of Competitive vs. Cooperative Attitudes.- FaceMaker: A Procedural Face Generator to Foster Character Design Research.- A Primer on Procedural Character Generation for Games and Real Time Applications.- Procedural Terrain Generation: A Case Study from the Game Industry.- Procedural Adventure Generation: The Quest of Meeting Shifting Design Goals with Flexible Algorithms.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	X, 177 p. 92 illus., 77 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Schlagworte	algorithms • Artificial Intelligence • augmented reality • Computational Intelligence • Computer applications in the arts and humanities • Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities • Computer Science • Dynamic game content • Game Design • Game Development • game dynamics • PCG • Player behavior • Player psychology • Procedural content generation • User Experience • User interface design and usability • user interfaces and human computer interaction • UX • Virtual Reality • VR games
ISBN-10	3-319-53087-9 / 3319530879
ISBN-13	978-3-319-53087-1 / 9783319530871
Zustand	Neuware