Mammoth: A massively multiplayer game research framework

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 308-315

  Kienzle, Jörg ^a   Verbrugge, Clark ^a   Kemme, Bettina ^a   Denault, Alexandre ^a   Hawker, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PRACTICE; INTEREST MANAGEMENTS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER GAMES; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; MODULAR FRAMEWORK; NETWORK ENGINES; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; RESEARCH DOMAINS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77953558719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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