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DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
From text to talk: multiplayer games and voiceover IP
The social experience of multiplayer gaming is mediated by the communications tools that are available to use. Until recently, these have been largely text-based, but with the adv...
John Halloran, Yvonne Rogers, Geraldine Fitzpatric...
AICCSA
2006
IEEE
134views Hardware» more  AICCSA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
The vMatrix: Equi-Ping Game Server Placement For Pre-Arranged First-Person-Shooter Multiplayer Matches
Today most multiplayer game servers are pre-located statically, which makes it hard for gamers to find equi-ping hosts for their matches. This is especially important for first per...
Amr Awadallah, Mendel Rosenblum
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
FreeRank: implementing independent ranking service for multiplayer online games
Ranking is necessary for multiplayer online games to provide players with self-complacence and reference for choosing game counterparts. Most existing ranking solutions are tightl...
Li Tang, Jun Li, Jin Zhou, Zhizhi Zhou, Hao Wang, ...
GROUP
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
The human factors of consistency maintenance in multiplayer computer games
Consistency maintenance (CM) techniques are a crucial part of many distributed systems, and are particularly important in networked games. In this paper we describe a framework of...
Cheryl Savery, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Carl Gutwin
VRST
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
GameOD: an internet based game-on-demand framework
Multiplayer online 3D games are becoming very popular in recent years. However, existing games require the complete game content to be installed prior to game playing. Since the c...
Frederick W. B. Li, Rynson W. H. Lau, Danny Kilis