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Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine

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Sean Mendonca,

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FDG '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3337722.3341835

Published: 26 August 2019 Publication History

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Project Panoptyk is a game engine designed to run Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games with information creation, sharing, and exchange as the central gameplay focus. This engine is a work in progress, intended to serve as a platform for simulating human/robot interaction, as well as automatic generation of game assets, quests, and real-estate. The project also aims to create an open platform allowing indie and research communities to experiment with MMO concepts. In pursuit of these goals, we identify and address a number of challenges that have traditionally made it difficult for independent designers or researchers to be competitive in creation of new MMO games.

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Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
      1. Simulation environments
    2. Simulation types and techniques

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FDG '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

August 2019

822 pages

ISBN:9781450372176

DOI:10.1145/3337722

Conference Chair:
Sebastian Deterding
University of York
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General Chair:
Foaad Khosmood
California Polytechnic State University
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Program Chairs:
Johanna Pirker
Graz University of Technology
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Thomas Apperley
CEGCS Tampere University

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FDG '19: The Fourteenth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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da Rocha Franco Ade Carvalho Wda Silva JMaia Jde Castro M(2024)Managing and controlling digital role-playing game elements: A current state of affairsEntertainment Computing10.1016/j.entcom.2024.10070851(100708)Online publication date: Sep-2024
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