Hearthstone is a free-to-play online digital collectible card game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Originally subtitled Heroes of Warcraft, Hearthstone builds upon the existing lore of the Warcraft series by using the same elements, characters, and relics. It was first released for Microsoft Windows and macOS in March 2014, with ports for iOS and Android released later that year. The game features cross-platform play, allowing players on any supported device to compete with one another, restricted only by geographical region account limits. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Bhatt, Aditya, Scott Lee, Fernando de Mesentier Silva, Connor W. Watson, Julian Togelius, and Amy K. Hoover. “Exploring the hearthstone deck space.” In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on the foundations of digital games, pp. 1-10. 2018.
García-Sánchez, Pablo, Alberto Tonda, Giovanni Squillero, Antonio Mora, and Juan J. Merelo. “Evolutionary deckbuilding in hearthstone.” In 2016 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2016.
de Mesentier Silva, Fernando, Rodrigo Canaan, Scott Lee, Matthew C. Fontaine, Julian Togelius, and Amy K. Hoover. “Evolving the hearthstone meta.” In 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2019.
Schelfhout, Sam, Matthew T. Bowers, and Y. Andrew Hao. “Balancing gender identity and gamer identity: Gender issues faced by Wang ‘BaiZe’Xinyu at the 2017 hearthstone summer championship.” Games and Culture 16, no. 1 (2021): 22-41.
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