Basic principles and analysis of high-level techniques for designing computer programs for virtual world

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, the world-famous Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Great Britain) published for the first time a scientific monograph called "Virtual World: Creators, Residents, and Tourists". The book contains the results of scientific research that was conducted for four years. The research was carried out at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (Minsk, Belarus). Employees of the Department of Human Engineering and Ergonomics, as well as employees of the research group "Systems and devices for environmental monitoring in the management of human life safety" took part in the research. Part of the research material was not included in the book. In this paper, we present another part of the research that was prepared a little later. It was not published in the book. This part deals with the issues of seriality and simulacra. In our opinion, seriality and simulacrum are currently the basic principles for designing computer entertainment programs in the virtual space.