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  title info:
    title: Online multiplayer games
  name:
    name part: Bainbridge, William Sims.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 105 pages) : color illustrations
  abstract: This lecture introduces fundamental principles of online multiplayer games, primarily massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), suitable for students and faculty interested both in designing games and in doing research on them. The general focus is human-centered computing, which includes many human-computer interaction issues and emphasizes social computing, but also, looks at how the design of socio-economic interactions extends our traditional notions of computer programming to cover human beings as well as machines. In addition, it demonstrates a range of social science research methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, that could be used by students for term papers, or by their professors for publications. In addition to drawing upon a rich literature about these games, this lecture is based on thousands of hours of first-hand research experience inside many classic examples, including World of Warcraft, The Matrix Online, Anarchy Online, Tabula Rasa, Entropia Universe, Dark Age of Camelot, Age of Conan, Lord of the Rings Online, Tale in the Desert, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and the non-game virtual world Second Life. Among the topics covered are historical-cultural origins of leading games, technical constraints that shape the experience, rolecoding and social control, player personality and motivation, relationships with avatars and characters, virtual professions and economies, social relations inside games, and the implications for the external society.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: 1.1. Types of online multiplayer games; 1.2. Preserving game history; 1.3. Intellectual approaches to games; 1.4. Research topic areas -- 2. Historical-cultural origins: 2.1. A Tale in the Desert; 2.2. Dark Age of Camelot; 2.3. Age of Conan; 2.4. Lord of the Rings online; 2.5. StarWars Galaxies -- 3. Technical constraints: 3.1. Latency; 3.2. Sharding; 3.3. Graphics -- 4. Rolecoding and social control: 4.1. Systems of rules; 4.2. Deviant behavior; 4.3. Game masters and mentors; 4.4. Legal regime -- 5. Personality and motivation: 5.1. Psychological theories and typologies; 5.2. Game-based theories; 5.3. Theoretical debates; 5.4. Non-player character personality -- 6. Avatars and characters: 6.1. Building a bond with an avatar; 6.2. The quality of avatar relationships; 6.3. Secondary avatars; 6.4. Facing the end -- 7. Virtual professions and economies: 7.1. Work in StarWars Galaxies; 7.2. Production in World of Warcraft; 7.3. Division of labor in professions -- 8. Social relations inside games: 8.1. Emergent social organization; 8.2. Examples of guilds; 8.3. Quantitative research on guilds -- 9. Implications for external society: 9.1. The online game penumbra; 9.2. What people learn in online games; 9.3. Research opportunities -- Bibliography -- Author's biography.
  note: William Sims Bainbridge.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-104).
  subject:
    topic: Internet games
  subject:
    topic: Internet games
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Fantasy games
  subject:
    topic: Shared virtual environments
  classification: GV1469.15 .B35 2010
  classification: 794.8/14678
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Online Multiplayer Games
    origin info:
      publisher: Morgan & Claypool 2009
    identifier: (OCoLC)401170146
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    title info:
      title: Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ; #13
  identifier: 9781608451432 (ebook)
  identifier: 1608451437 (ebook)
  identifier: 9781608451425 (pbk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: WAU
    record creation date: 091230
    record change date: 20190329193959.0
    record identifier: in00002692685
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng