Our goal is to enable Non Player Characters (NPC) in computer games to exhibit natural behaviors. The quality of behaviors affects the game experience especially in storybased games, which rely on player-NPC interactions. We used Reinforcement Learning to enable NPC companions to develop preferences for actions. We implemented our RL technique in BioWare Corp.’s Neverwinter Nights. Our experime...

Mapping user profiles across social network sites enables sharing and interactions between social networks, which enriches the social networking experience. Manual mapping for user profiles is a time consuming and tedious task. In addition profile mapping algorithms are inaccurate and are usually based on simple name or email string matching. In this paper, we propose a Game With A Purpose (GWA...

As hemophilia is a chronic bleeding diseaseand can interfere with daily performanceof children, these children require continuoustraining to prevent bleeding and take timely action(1). Since children nurses play an important role inthe education of involved children and their Selfefficacyand also due to today’s approach whichis using educational computer games, the use ofeducational games in re...

In this paper, we obtain a generalization of Grothendieck's theorem for the space continuous mappings Cλ,μ(X,Y) where Y is complete uniform with uniformity μ endowed topology convergence on family λ subsets X. A new topological game defined - Asanov-Velichko game, which makes it possible to single out class spaces Grothendieck type. The developed technique used generalize set-open topology.

Ad-hoc networking capabilities have provided the flexibility needed to construct various types of networks without infrastructure base stations. Emerging products for sensor networks, such as Zigbee (1), use ad-hoc networking capabilities to construct networks. These sensor nodes can construct the network such as in outdoor fields and inside buildings without much effort on establishing the bas...

The future of computer game history lies in preservation. Most work has focused on the collection and maintenance of completed games, both digital and physical, but for game history to mature we need to look beyond singular objects and venture deeper into games’ development history. There is a problem, however, in that most development practice and technique is hidden, either by corporate opaci...

Currently, gaming is the world's favorite form of entertainment. Various studies have shown how games impact players' perceptions and behaviors, prompting opportunities for purposes beyond This study uses Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH)—a real-time life-simulation game—as a unique case video can affect humans' environmental perceptions. A dataset 584 observations from survey ACNH players H...