Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation

Authors

  • Jared Pettitt
  • Nathan Altice

Keywords:

game systems, emergent gameplay, systemic games, formal analysis

Abstract

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Published

2025-06-16

Bibtex

@Conference{digra2441, title ="Analyzing Emergence in Pac-Man's Mazes with Systemic Reverberation", year = "2025", author = "Pettitt, Jared and Altice, Nathan", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/2441}", booktitle = "Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads"}