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Scaling in games and virtual worlds

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 51 , Issue 8 (August 2008) table of contents
Designing games with a purpose

SECTION: Practice table of contents

Pages: 38-44

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0001-0782

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Jim Waldo

Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Burlington, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Online games and virtual worlds have familiar scaling requirements, but don't be fooled: Everything you know is wrong.

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