Year 2015

• Developing Game-Structure Sensitive Matchmaking System for Massive-Multiplayer Online Games

  Publication

  • M. Myślak
  • D. Deja

  - Year 2015

  Providing a fair matchmaking system is an essential issue, while developing every online video game. In the article, we show that the currently existing matchmaking system in League of Legends, one of the most popular online video games currently existing, is built on a base of conditions which do not hold true in the presence of empirical data. This, in short, decreases the effectiveness of the ranking system, and negatively affects...

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• TOPOLOGICAL CLUES FOR PREDICTING OUTCOMES OF MULTIPLAYER ONLINE BATTLE ARENA GAMES

  Publication

  • D. Deja
  • M. Myślak

  - Year 2015

  With 27 million people playing League of Legends every day, e-sports became more and more important part of our everyday life. Rise of its popularity builds a demand for better understanding e-sports mechanics on a deeper level. In the article, we test a hypothesis that it is possible to predict an outcome of Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game based on topological clues only (such as area of polygon where vertices are players...

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