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Decision support system for evaluating the role of music in network-based game for sustaining effectiveness

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The development of music in games brings attractiveness and spreads the gaming industry. Music plays a vital role in the games to attract user attitudes toward gaming. The gaming industry is more beneficial than any other industry, like the film industry using music in-game. The evolution of music in games started a few decades ago and brought a lot of enhancement in gaming. Nowadays, a player likes music-based games more than any other game because while playing music-based games, it releases stress and keeps comfortable of player’s mind. The music in games changes the previous gaming style and advances, which help the young generation, learn something new from different games. Music is used to attract user attitudes and ultimately involve users in gaming during playing games. Music is utilized in-game to develop a more attractive and memorable game to enhance users’ interest in playing games. In addition, the usage of background music in games is also a primary part of successful games because, at a similar time, game developers and those who play games hope that video games can be more persuasive. After studying the previous paper, it identified that music in games positively impacts players’ performance and achievement, improves the player’s skills, and keeps players relaxed during playing games. The current research has considered the decision support system (DSS) for evaluating the role of music in games for sustained effectiveness. Results of the study have shown the efficacy of the study.

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  1. School of Music and Dance, Jishou University, Hunan, 416000, China

    Yanli Yu

  2. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Dong Wang

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malakand, Chakdara, Pakistan

    Mohammad Faisal

  4. Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Fouzia Jabeen

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    Sumaira Johar

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The idea was formulated by the YY, DW, and MF. The study was documented by all the authors, and overall work was supervised by first authors and FJ, and SJ. The draft version of the paper was prepared by all the authors, and the supervision along with the final draft was prepared by the first author and Muhammad Faisal.

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Yu, Y., Wang, D., Faisal, M. et al. Decision support system for evaluating the role of music in network-based game for sustaining effectiveness. Soft Comput 26, 10775–10788 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-022-06992-2

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