Play-Persona: Modeling Player Behaviour in Computer Games

one cause of death, and performing a count across these layers. A total of eight causes of death
were included (including death by falling, via contact with enemies and environment causes, such
as traps) (Figure 6).
Figure 5: The Valaskjalf map unit level map has been overlain with three layers showing the extent of three separate
causes of death: Falling (light blue), traps (green) and water volume [players drowning by being submerged in rising
waters] (red).
Figure 6: Overlay analysis using ArcGIS. The analysis shows the areas of the map where the highest number of different
causes of death occur, on a scale from light green (one cause of death) to red (six causes of death). The area with the
most causes of death is also one of the areas with the highest overall death count (Fig. 4).
The result of the overlay analysis shows that most areas of the map unit have one to two causes of death. Four areas
(Figure 4) have been marked for closer analysis (Figure 7).
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