Running Quake II on a grid

ed underlying grid infrastructure to an application) allowed us to reuse an existing game engine without the need to make any significant changes to it. In this paper we examine the design elements needed by an MMOG and provide a practical implementation example--the extension of the id Software Quake IIt game engine using OptimalGrid middleware. A key feature of this work is the ability to programmatically partition a game world onto a dynamically chosen and sized set of servers, each serving one or more regions of the map, followed by the reintegration of the distributed game world into a seamless presentation for game clients. We explore novel features developed in this work and present results of our initial performance validation experiments with the resulting system.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IBMSJ
• Authors: Glenn Deen, Matthew Hammer, John Bethencourt, Iris Eiron, John Thomas, James H. Kaufman
• Keywords: Game Engine, Game World, IBMSJ 2006, Quake IIt Game