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Building Scaleable Middleware for MMORPGs

Posted by simoniker on from the complexity-plus-plus dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article exploring the challenges of developing a reliable platform for an MMORPG, specifically looking at Wish by Mutable Realms. From the article: 'A common scalability problem for distributed multiplayer games relates to managing distributed sets of objects... A player may not be a member of more than one guild, or a guild may have at most one level-5 mage (magician). In computing terms, implementing such behavior boils down to performing membership tests on sets of distributed objects.'"

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  1. Here are some initial beta screenshots by (1337)+God · · Score: 0, Redundant

    - Dragon
    - Cute guy with his shirt off
    - A bunch of players chatting
    - A troll

    If you're really bored, there's a whole index.

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