Introducing PlaNet - A Tool for Visualizing Player Communities

Günter Wallner; Simone Kriglstein

doi:10.1145/3235765.3235808

Introducing PlaNet - A Tool for Visualizing Player Communities

Günter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein (Speaker)

University of Applied Arts Vienna

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Abstract

Online gaming has taken on an indispensable role in popular culture and with it interest in understanding all types of player communities - be it directly within our around a game - shi?ed into the focus of aSention of game developers. While research on player networks has proliferated, visualization of these communities and networks has received liSle consideration. In this paper we introduce PlaNet, a tool speciEurocally targeted toward visualizing Player Networks. We refect on the present state of development and utilize a social network derived from data from the matchmaking website the100.io to demonstrate its current visualization capabilities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundation of Digital Games - FDG'18
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235808
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	FDG´18 Foundations of Digital Games 2018 - Duration: 7 Aug 2018 → 10 Aug 2018

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Conference	FDG´18 Foundations of Digital Games 2018
Period	7/08/18 → 10/08/18

Research Field

Former Research Field - Capturing Experience

Keywords

Player Communities
Social Networks
Visualization

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