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16: Gaming Techniques for Designing Compelling
Virtual Worlds
Sunday, Half Day, 1:30 - 5 pm
Room 408
The
world-building tricks of the computer game trade are a
multi-billion-dollar competition to build the most enticing
and immersive virtual environments. Speakers describe
their approaches to designing environments, review their
experiences (both good and bad), and showcase their latest
technologies.
Prerequisites
None.
Topics
Community building and society design. World navigability
by humans and artificially intelligent software agents.
People flow and bottlenecks. The impact of design on technology,
and of technology on design. Crossover between entertainment
systems and military-realm visual simulators.
Organizer
Michael Capps
Naval Postgraduate School
Lecturers
Yahn Bernier
Valve Software
Cliff Bleszinski
Shane Caudle
Epic Games
Michael Capps
Naval Postgraduate School
Jesse Schell
Walt Disney Imagineering |
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