Handbook of Digital Games

Contributors ix Introduction 1 Marios C. Angelides and Harry Agius Part I Gaming Techniques and Tools 1. Toward the Adaptive Generation of Bespoke Game Content17 Cameron Browne, Simon Colton, Michael Cook, Jeremy Gow, andRobin Baumgarten 2. Procedural Content Generation 62 Tom Betts 3. Content Generation in a Collaborative Browser-Based GameEnvironment 92 Juha-Matti Vanhatupa and Janne Lautamaki 4. Automatic Narratives in MMORPGs 111 Hao Wang 5. Collision Detection with Navigation Meshes 130 D. Hunter Hale and G. Michael Youngblood 6. Mass Population: Plausible and Practical Crowd Simulation146 Sybren A. Stüvel, Cathy Ennis, and Arjan Egges 7. Synchronization in Multiplayer Online Games 175 Stefano Ferretti 8. Exchanging Social Information in Online Social Games197 Fabrizio Davide, Stefano Triberti, and FrancescoCollovà 9. Collaboration through Gaming 235 Damon Daylamani Zad, Marios C. Angelides, and HarryAgius 10. AI for General Strategy Game Playing 274 Jon Lau Nielsen, Benjamin Fedder Jensen, Tobias Mahlmann, JulianTogelius, and Georgios N. Yannakakis 11. Rated A for Advertising: A Critical Reflection on In-GameAdvertising 305 Laura Herrewijn and Karolien Poels Part II Game Play 12. Immersion in Digital Games: Review of Gaming ExperienceResearch 339 Paul Cairns, Anna Cox, and A. Imran Nordin 13. Know Thy Player: An Integrated Model of Player Experiencefor Digital Games Research 362 Malte Elson, Johannes Breuer, and Thorsten Quandt 14. At the Core of Player Experience: Continuation Desire inDigital Games 388 Henrik Schoenau-Fog 15. Empirical Game Aesthetics 411 Chris Bateman 16. Mobile Game Play and Everyday Life 444 Barbara Grüter, Nassrin Hajinejad, and IaroslavSheptykin 17. Video Games, Machinima, and Classic Cinema: MeaningfulGaming 471 Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and SaraCortés 18. Video Games in Educational Settings: Developing Skills forNew Media Learning 502 Ana Belen García Varela, Héctor Del Castillo, DavidHerrero, Natalia Monjelat, and Mirian Checa 19. Retro-Computing Community Sites and the Museum 523 Helen Stuckey and Melanie Swalwell 20. From the Deceptively Simple to the Pleasurably Complex: TheRise of Cooperative Address in the History of Video Games 548 Carl Therrien Part III Game Design and Development 21. Emotion in Games 575 Celso M. de Melo, Ana Paiva, and Jonathan Gratch 22. Task Deployment in Three Types of Game Spatial Structures593 Chuen-Tsai Sun and Sheng-yi Hsu 23. Social Ontology of Digital Games 607 Ivan Mosca 24. Gaming with Purpose: Heuristic Understanding of UbiquitousGame Development and Design for Human Computation 645 Lindsay D. Grace and Peter Jamieson 25. Beyond Stereotypes of Gender and Gaming: Video Games Made byMiddle School Students 667 Jill Denner, Eloy Ortiz, Shannon Campe, and Linda Werner 26. Decade of Game Making for Learning: From Tools toCommunities 689 Quinn Burke and Yasmin B. Kafai 27. Designing Interactive Tangible Games for Diverse Forms ofPlay 710 Tilde Bekker, Ben Schouten, and Mark de Graaf 28. Artisanal Local Networks: Game Work and Culture inIndependent Game Production 730 Orlando Guevara-Villalobos Index 751