An Exploratory Study of Player and Team Performance in Multiplayer First-Person-Shooter Games

• Main Authors: SHIM, Kyong Jin, HSU, K. W., Damania, S., Delong, C., SRIVASTAVA, J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: first person shooter; multiplayer games; player performance; team changing; team composition; team performance; video games; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1508; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.155
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we report findings from an exploratory study of player and team performance in Halo 3, a popular First-Person-Shooter game developed by Bungie. In the study, we first analyze player and team statistics obtained from the 2008 and 2009 seasons for professional Halo 3 games in order to i...