(MMOGs) can include millions of concurrent players spread across the world. To keep these highly-interactive virtual environments online, a MMOG operator may need to provision tens of thousands of computing resources from various data centers. Faced with large resource demand variability

Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, den 31st March 2011 Applying the peer-to-peer architecture to massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) is a concept that until now didn’t reach any commercial game. The idea of creating a game that allows players to play MMOG over a peer-to-peer system is a great step

With the United States of America suffering from a lack of scientifically literate grade and secondary school students, educational games offer an opportunity to engage and inspire students to take interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) subjects. Learning assessment

Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, den 28th February 2014 (Denis Lapiner) This Master’s Thesis proposes and implements a game design for an Android based massively multiplayer online augmented reality game. The proposed game design is based on an analysis of other popular aug-mented reality games

an insider and explore how players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) engage in virtual communities, learn and communicate their (game-related) knowledge. Players within such a context are forming guilds and alliances in order to extend their skill-base and capabilities

Playing Games) are considered to be complex, ever increasing systems with a full range of social and material practices, where true mastery of the game can only be achieved by working collaboratively with other players. In situated learning theory, it is argued that learning, thinking and knowing

Passion represents one of the factors involved in online video gaming. However, it remains unclear how passion affects the way gamers are involved in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). The objective of the present study was to analyze the relationships between passions

, online multiplayer computer games (multiplayer games for short) share one common element: in order for the games to operate as designed, there need to be multiple players playing them and interacting with each other. According to a multi-dimensional typology of games by Aarseth, Smedstad and Sunnanå

ABSTRACT Online multiplayer games are a popular form of social interaction, used by hundreds of millions of individuals. However, little is known about the social networks within these online games, or how they evolve over time. Understanding human social dynamics within massive online games can

Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the recent years, particularly in the form of online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games support up to several ten thousand players interacting in a virtual game world. The current commercially successful games