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The Challenges of Making a Multiplayer Game

Posted by timothy on Monday February 25, 2002 @05:18AM from the please-give-me-a-driving-simulator dept.

PokeBlor writes: "Arena.net has an article by Patrick Wyatt, a Blizzard ex, that goes into depth about the creation of multiplayer games, ranging from replayability to lag. He uses good examples from Starcraft and Warcraft 2, two games that Wyatt was a designer on."

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Re:Avoid lag?! by arkanes · 2002-02-25 08:18 · Score: 1, Troll

The FAQ mentions that they don't want to do that in order to maintain the integrity of the keygen algorithm, which makes lots of sense.