This paper proposes using a text-based dungeon crawler adventure as a case study to explore the methods to implement deception in video games. The study proposes a framework for integrating deception into gameplay, leveraging the alignment system ...

Background Video games are complex projects that involve a seamless integration of art and software during the development process to compose the final product. In the creation of a video game, software is fundamental as it governs the behavior and ...

Digital human avatars provide users with more natural interactions in virtual reality, games, and specific scenarios and enhance user immersion. This study explores the ways of controlling a digital human avatar and the effects of different ...

Procedural Content Generation (PCG) plays a vital role in digital games and interactive media, using algorithms and rules to automatically generate the core elements of a game, aiming to provide a rich and unique experience for the player. This ...

Neural models are one of the most popular approaches for music generation, yet there aren’t standard large datasets tailored for learning music directly from game data. To address this research gap, we introduce a novel dataset named NES-VMDB, ...

Audio description (AD), an accessibility service that narrates visual elements for persons with visual disabilities, is starting to be implemented into video game trailers and cutscenes. However, its potential to improve accessibility in real-time ...

Stress and psychological distress in the workplace are behind a large number of physiological and mental concerns. As a way to face this, modern businesses have increasingly embraced active pauses and short breaks to favor relaxation and ...

Body-controlled avatars provide a more intuitive method to real-time control virtual avatars but require larger environment space and more user effort. In contrast, hand-controlled avatars give more dexterous and fewer fatigue manipulations within a ...

We present Puppeteer, an input prototype system that allows players directly control their avatars through intuitive hand gestures and upper-body postures. We selected 17 avatar actions discovered in the pilot study and conducted a gesture elicitation ...

The authors investigate how peer influence affects customers' product adoption behaviors in emerging video game platforms. Understanding peer influence is critical to motivating users' willingness to purchase and improving game publishers' marketing ...

Social relationships are a fundamental aspect of human existence. Unsurprisingly, policymakers are incessantly devising strategies that accentuate the benefits of social relationships and diminish the risks of social isolation. The natural manifestation ...

Video games are an area where Artificial Intelligence has multiple application scenarios, allowing to add improvements that can be applied to provide greater realism in the game experience, accelerate its development (even automate it) and save ...

The field of electronic games is a great experimental area that contributes to the implementation of new technologies in a variety of applications. This article explores the field of mixed reality through the use of physical computing for the ...

Recommendation systems have been used widely in many industries, including online retail, movies, and news media. Indeed, video game recommendation systems are one of the most important tools available to users and game distribution platforms today. A ...

Arkham Asylum is home to some of popular culture's most notorious super villains. The neglect and inadequate care these villains receive mirrors a real-world context where mental illness is surrounded by stigma, misunderstanding, and poor ...

In this paper we present Flair, an interactive fiction game that is intended to serve as a psycho-educational material for the therapeutic treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Along with the game design approach, explanation of the inclusion of ...

This article describes how current video games offer an extreme use of media fusion. Such construction implies a novel form of complexity regarding game control and active response from game to player. All of these elements produce deeper immersion ...

Dota 2, a complex team based video game, was used to study expertise and attentional allocation in a multiplayer online battle arena MOBA setting. Pre-and post-play survey questions and eye-tracker data were collected from 67 video game players during a ...

Extensive research was conducted amongst a First Person Shooter FPS online video game community called Syndicate Gamers. The research focused on their effective use of an organizational structure and managerial hierarchy; implemented and executed via ...

The present empirical study examined the efficacy of coupling L1 or L2 definitions with pictorial glosses on incidental vocabulary learning when L2 learners exclusively play a purposely designed hidden-object game. Elementary EFL learners n= 162 took a ...