Forming one of the major genres of games, Role Playing Games (RPGs) have proven an extremely portable concept, and the games are situated across various cultural and format-related boundaries. The effect of porting RPGs between formats is however a subject of which very little is known. This paper presents results of an empirical study of multi-player RPGs, evaluating how the transference betwe...

This paper describes our experience in the design and implementation of a web–based computer system to support employee selection or assessment. Instead of traditional questionnaires the test is a Role Playing Game session, to reduce repetitiveness and predictability, and therefore to increase its effectiveness. The story is dynamically built by a multi–agent system, that chooses between availa...

Este artigo tem o objetivo de propor uma ferramenta auxiliar no ensino da Matemática para alunos do sexto ano Ensino Fundamental II, utilizando jogo “Gênios Cálculo RPG”, visando desenvolvimento habilidades, onde, através história envolvente, aluno terá a oportunidade aprender e se divertir ao mesmo tempo. Ao final, são apresentadas sugestões que professores possam utilizá-lo como acordo com se...

This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation of optimal threat evasion strategies for improving the survivability of rotorcraft under attack by rocket propelled grenades (RPGs). The basis of this approach is the application of inverse simulation techniques pioneered for simulation of aggressive helicopter manoeuvres to the RPG engagement problem. In this research, improvements...

In this paper we propose storage allocation schemes to minimize the buffer requirements for fault-tolerant video-ondemand (VOD) servers with disk arrays. To guarantee the high reliability of video service, the servers usually adopt parity-encoding techniques in which data blocks and their associated parity block form a parity group. For real-time video service, all the blocks in a parity group ...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to report on our experience with modified radiology-guided percutaneous gastrostomy (MRPG) without endoscopic or nasogastric access for treating patients with complete obstruction of the upper digestive tract. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourteen oncology patients (13 had hypopharyngeal cancer and 1 had upper esophageal cancer) with complete obstruction of the upper digestive tr...

In on-line role-playing games (RPG), each race holds some attributes and skills. Each skill contains several abilities such as physical damage, hit rate, etc. Parts of the attributes and all the abilities are a function of the character’s level, which are called Ability-Increasing Functions (AIFs). A well-balanced on-line RPG is characterized by having a set of well-balanced AIFs. In this paper...

Funding: Fisheries Society of the British Isles; European Research Council (Grant Number(s): ERC AdG BioTIME 250189); The Leverhulme Trust RPG-2019-402).

Este artigo propõe uma discussão sobre a categoria do mestre de Role Playing Game (RPG) em comparação com o narrador na perspectiva Walter Benjamin. Em virtude serem categorias distintas, é importante salientar as diferenças entre e narrador, ainda que para esta reflexão jogo pode ser visto como imagem literário. Dessa forma, assim qualquer espelho, reflexo não idêntico ao objeto real. Enquanto...