IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Living city: a collaborative browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
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In recent years, browser games have considerably improved so that regarding the number of players they nowadays can compete with MMOGs. At the same time, they have abandoned their own principles by increasingly relying on proprietary technology. In this paper, we propose the concept of a 2D single player game engine that is based on new Web 2.0 standards (especially AJAX) which promise to alleviate some of the problems that caused the mentioned technological shift. No additional platform besides a standard browser will be needed to run instantiated games, since the engine will be based on JavaScript. Game content will be loaded on-demand using an AJAX-compliant update mechanism.