Quality Measures for Improving Technology Trees

The quality of technology trees in digital games can be improved by adjusting their structural and quantitative properties. Therefore, there is a demand for recognizing and measuring such properties. Part of the process can be automated; there are properties measurable by computers, and analyses bas...

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Main Authors: Teemu J. Heinimäki, Tapio Elomaa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/975371
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Summary:The quality of technology trees in digital games can be improved by adjusting their structural and quantitative properties. Therefore, there is a demand for recognizing and measuring such properties. Part of the process can be automated; there are properties measurable by computers, and analyses based on the results (and visualizations of them) may help to produce significantly better technology trees, even practically without extra workload for humans. In this paper, we introduce useful technology tree properties and novel measuring features implemented into our software tool for manipulating technology trees.
ISSN:1687-7047
1687-7055