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FreeMMG: a hybrid peer-to-peer and client-server model for massively multiplayer games

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Network and System Support for Games archive
Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games table of contents

Portland, Oregon, USA

POSTER SESSION: Poster Sessions table of contents

Pages: 172 - 172

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-942-X

Authors

Fábio Reis Cecin	University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Rafael de Oliveira Jannone	University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Cláudio Fernando Resin Geyer	University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Márcio Garcia Martins	Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
Jorge Luis Victoria Barbosa	Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCOMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A Massively Multiplayer Game (MMG) is an Internet-based distributed game (or multiplayer game) that supports a large amount of simultaneous players interacting, in real-time, in a persistent virtual world. Practically all of today's MMGs employ a client-server distribution approach where the client is trusted only to send interaction requests and receive updates about the current state of the virtual world (position updates, etc). One of the main reasons that drive this choice of a strongly centralized architecture is the protection it offers against player cheating. Examples of successful MMGs that routinely support several thousand simultaneous players include EverQuest and Lineage.

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