Rokkatan: Scaling an RTS game design to the massively multiplayer realm

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Müller, Jens ^a   Gorlatch, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer games; Massively multiplayer; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; SCALABILITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33746816588     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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