Emerging behaviors on the journey of streamers in Limgrave, Elden Ring

• Daniel Manginelli CESAR School Recife
• Nilson V. Soares CESAR School Recife

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbgames_estendido.2022.225988

Abstract

This short paper describes how will be researched the behavior of streamers playing the initial area of Elden Ring, aiming to understand, through the point of view of emergent behavior between complex systems, how the game applies the Soulsborne design to the Open World genre.

Keywords: player behavior, emergent gameplay, game analysis, game studies

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