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W&L’s Elizabeth Matthews Receives Outstanding Paper Award Professor Matthews received an outstanding paper award at the 13th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies.

lmatthews W&L's Elizabeth Matthews Receives Outstanding Paper AwardElizabeth Matthews

Elizabeth Matthews, assistant professor of computer science at Washington and Lee University, received an outstanding paper award at the 13th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies.

The international conference’s focus is on the design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and the nature of play. The conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in the field.

Matthews’ paper title is “Atlas Chronicle: Development and Verification of a System for Procedural Generation of Story-Driven Games.” The paper proposes a system (Atlas Chronicle) for the generation of world maps for games that feature story-driven locations.

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