Programming in Lua, Second Edition
Programming in Lua, Second Edition
Blissfully productive: grouping and cooperation in world of warcraft instance runs
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The changing dynamic of social interaction in World of Warcraft: the impacts of game feature change
ACE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Rhythm-based level generation for 2D platformers
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games
Towards gameplay analysis via gameplay metrics
Proceedings of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era
The rogue in the lovely black dress: intimacy in world of warcraft
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mining game statistics from web services: a World of Warcraft armory case study
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Avatar movement in World of Warcraft battlegrounds
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games
World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons
World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons
A large-scale, longitudinal study of user profiles in world of warcraft
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Technical Section: PLATO: A visual analytics system for gameplay data
Computers and Graphics
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Designing video game scenarios that will stimulate the player with an engaging and properly paced level of difficulty is a non-trivial issue, one which can fundamentally impact the playability and popularity of a game. World of Warcraft, like many MMORPGs, suffers noticeably from the less challenging pacing of its later-game scenarios compared to its earlier-game content. To examine this observation in detail, a World of Warcraft client-side plugin was created to record data about the players' progress throughout a cooperative scenario, including health, power, map position, class, and role. This data was analyzed to measure the pacing of each session. The results showed a drop in difficulty between late-game level 80 five-person group content and level 70 five-person group content. Using this basic metric to quantify the level of difficulty is a step forward in designing scalable and adaptable scenarios that can continue to challenge players of all experience levels.