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Characters as Gateways to the Game World

, 2017
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How players value their characters in world of warcraft

Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, 2014
Characters in games such as World of Warcraft allow players to act in the game world and to interact with others. Game characters and avatars are a mediated form of self-representation for the player, but some research suggests that players also view characters in other ways that have to do with the kinds of value that the characters provide. To better
Carl Gutwin, Max V Birk
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The Characters and Their World

1980
Norris J Lacy
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Characters in Fictional Worlds

2010
Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today's diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character ...
JENS EDER, FOTIS JANNIDIS, RALF SCHNEIDER   +2 more
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Character Sharing in World of Warcraft

2009
Many online games are played through characters that act out players' intentions in the game world. The practice of character sharing — allowing others to use one's characters, or using others' — is prohibited in many RPGs, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the practice is common, and that it may play an important role in the game.
Nelson Wong, Anthony Tang 0001, Ian J. Livingston, Carl Gutwin, Regan L. Mandryk   +4 more
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Creating animated characters for the physical world

XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 2016
Making the design and production of animated, mechanical characters accessible to the public.
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Look Inside the World of Parts of Handwritten Characters

2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011
Part-based recognition is expected to be robust in difficult handwritten character recognition tasks. This is because part-based recognition is based on aggregation of independent recognition results at individual local parts without considering their global relations and thus is robust against various deformations, such as partial occlusion, overlap ...
Wang Song, Seiichi Uchida, Marcus Liwicki   +2 more
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The Third World and the social character

1992
When we arrive in an investigation at a difficult or critical point, we surely take a new look at our original scheme and go over the steps we have followed to see if, in some way, we can find another way forward. This is a principle valid also in social research, especially when we are confronted with structures determined by ideologies or resulting ...
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