RPG (Roleplaying Game) e seu potencial pedagógico

Optimization of AI Tactic in Action-RPG Game

In an Action RPG game, usually there is one or more player character. Also, there are many enemies and bosses. Player should kill as many as possible to get more experience. A smart AI is needed to increase the game challenge. In this research, a method is proposed to optimize the enemy AI strategy, by implementing enemy units grouping, and attacking in group using hit and run strategy against ...

"Playing RPG Maker"? Amateur Game Design and Video Gaming

Game creation tools like Game Maker or RPG Maker democratize game making and facilitate the development of amateur game design. The best known among these programs have dynamic web-communities with active members making thousands of games. However, as of now, there is little research on amateur game design except for modding or education fields. In this paper I argue that approaching amateur ga...

The Potencial of Nanorobotics

How to Host a Pervasive Game Supporting Face-to-Face Interactions in Live-Action Roleplaying

"You are invited to the Bauer mansion for dinner and to help solve a murder." Invitations like this one have been sent out by the millions, inviting friends and family to a multiplayer murder mystery party, often from the best-selling "How to Host a Murder" series of games. At these parties the players gather at a friend's house for dinner imagining it to be a mansion in the 1930's. The party g...

Reuse without Compromising Performance: Industrial Experience from RPG Software Product Line for Mobile Devices

It is often believed that reusable solutions, being generic, must necessarily compromise performance. In this paper, we consider a family of RolePlaying Games (RPGs). We analyzed similarities and differences among four RPGs. By applying a reuse technique of XVCL, we built an RPG product line architecture (RPG-PLA) from which we could derive any of the four RPGs. We built into the RPG-PLA a numb...