Game Usage Mining: Information Gathering for Knowledge Discovery in Massive Multiplayer Games.
Amund Tveit, Gisle B. Tveit · 2002
Multiplayer games provide rich sources of information for data. mining. The primary purpose of data mining in games is to find patterns of behavior, structure or content in order to improve the overall gameplay, hence keeping players longer and increasing the revenue of the game service. In this paper we define the term game usage mining and describe it from web usage mining perspective, with the main emphasis on data gathering. A classification of game types fi'om a data nfining perspective is also suggested. Based on the discussion we propose content for a common game log format suitable for game usage mining.