From a single-to multi-server online game: A quake 3 case study using RTF

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 83-90

  Ploss, Alexander ^a   Wichmann, Stefan ^a   Glinka, Frank ^a   Gorlatch, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed architecture; Massively multiplayer online games; Middleware; Network middleware; Online games; Performance; Quake 3 arena; Real time online interactive applications; Responsiveness; RTF; Scalability

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK MIDDLEWARE; ONLINE GAMES; PERFORMANCE; QUAKE 3 ARENA; REAL-TIME ONLINE INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; RESPONSIVENESS; RTF;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MIDDLEWARE; SCALABILITY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67649398982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1501750.1501769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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