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Designing Game Worlds. Coherence in the Design of Open World Games through Procedural Generation Techniques

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CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3270316.3270319

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"Open World Games" have the potential for countless hours of exploration and fun through their huge game worlds. Procedural generation of game content by computer software is therefore becoming more and more important as a design technique. Using such techniques can cause problems in the coherence of the worlds that adversely affect the game experience. This work deals with the development and design of an open world game with a high degree of design coherence.

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Designing Game Worlds. Coherence in the Design of Open World Games through Procedural Generation Techniques
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Shape modeling
      1. Mesh models

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CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts

October 2018

725 pages

ISBN:9781450359689

DOI:10.1145/3270316

General Chairs:
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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Daniel Johnson
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
,
Ben Schouten
Eindhoven University of Technology and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
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Program Chairs:
Phoebe O. Toups Dugas
Play & Interactive Experiences for Learning Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
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Peta Wyeth
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3572921.3572926
Petrovas ABausys R(2022)Regionally morphing objects for the genetic WASPAS-SVNS game scene generation algorithm2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET)10.1109/ICECET55527.2022.9872949(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Jul-2022
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Nielsen TRafferty ESchoenau-Fog HPalamas G(2020)Embedded Narratives in Procedurally Generated EnvironmentsInteractive Storytelling10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_3(30-43)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2020
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