Massivizing Social Games: Yesterday, Today, and The Next Five Years

Keynote Annual Syposium of the The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)

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Abstract

In this talk, we discuss the emerging field of massiziving social gaming for over 1 billion gamers world-wide. We present a short history of (online) gaming, and discuss ongoing research results. We further explore challenges from scaling virtual worlds, procedural game content generation at scale, and large-scale game analytics.