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Research Shows Precisely Which Strategies Help Players Win Team-Oriented Video Games
A new technique developed by NCSU researchers offers extremely precise information about how a player's actions affect a team's changes of winning a multi-player online game.
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North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers have developed a technique to determine which strategies give players an advantage at multi-player, real-time strategy (ARTS) games.
The researchers say their technique offers extremely precise information about how a player's actions affect a team's chances of winning, and could be used to develop technology for use by players and developers to improve gameplay experiences.
The technique uses analytic tools to evaluate logs of player actions from thousands of ARTS games. The researchers used that information to develop a set of rules governing team gameplay strategies in order to identify which approaches give teams the best chance of winning.
"These tools could be incorporated into games by game developers, or could be developed into standalone training modules," says NCSU professor David L. Roberts.
The researchers evaluated the attributes of individual team characters and measured how the attributes changed over the course of a game. They found that the importance of an individual character's attributes varies widely, based on the makeup of each multi-player team.
"We’re currently working to use these findings to develop visualization tools that let players know how they are doing in real time, relative to the strategies we know are predictive of success," Roberts says.
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