Enhancing battle maps through flow graphs

Günter Wallner

doi:10.1109/CIG.2019.8848052

Enhancing battle maps through flow graphs

Günter Wallner

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Abstract

So-called battle maps are an appropriate way to visually summarize the flow of battles as they happen in many team-based combat games. Such maps can be a valuable tool for retrospective analysis of battles for the purpose of training or for providing a summary representation for spectators. In this paper an extension to the battle map algorithm previously proposed by the author [1] and which addresses a shortcoming in the depiction of troop movements is described. The extension does not require alteration of the original algorithm and can easily be added as an intermediate step before rendering. The extension is illustrated using gameplay data from the team-based multiplayer game World of Tanks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-1884-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848052
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019
Event	2019 IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Aug 2019 → 23 Aug 2019

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Conference	2019 IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	20/08/19 → 23/08/19

Keywords

Battle map
Game analytics
Movement visualization
Player-centric visualization

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