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- Title
- Game time : modeling and analyzing time in multiplayer and massively multiplayer games
- Related
- Games and culture, Vol. 4, No. 2, (2009), p.170-201
- DOI
- 10.1177/1555412008325479
- Publisher
- United States : Sage Publications
- Date
- 2009
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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200100 Communication and Media Studies
190200 Film, Television and Digital Media
- Author/Creator
- Tychsen, Anders
- Author/Creator
- Hitchens, Michael
- Description
- Game time is a core feature of game design and study, and forms part of the gaming experience on a variety of levels. It can be viewed from multiple perspectives, for example, the time of the playing of the game or the flow of time in a game world. In this article, a comprehensive game time model based on empirical research as well as recent theory is presented. It proposes various perspectives on game time and integrates them to allow coherent representation of the same events in the different perspectives. The model has been tested across tabletop and digital formats, and its applicability across game formats is demonstrated. Emphasis is placed on multiplayer and massively multiplayer role-playing games because these feature complex game time behavior not previously evaluated. The model considers game time as an interactively created and nonlinear feature of games and game play.
- Description
- 32 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 200100 Communication and Media Studies
- Subject Keyword
- 190200 Film, Television and Digital Media
- Subject Keyword
- time
- Subject Keyword
- mapping
- Subject Keyword
- game world
- Subject Keyword
- time layer
- Subject Keyword
- viewpoints of time
- Subject Keyword
- game speed
- Subject Keyword
- playing game
- Subject Keyword
- role
- Subject Keyword
- game
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Computing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/152985
- Identifier
- ISSN:1555-4120
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009003331
- Language
- eng
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