ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
On the impact of delay on real-time multiplayer games
NOSSDAV '02 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
The need for real time consistency management in P2P mobile gaming environments
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
On the effects of loose causal consistency in mobile multiplayer games
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
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Despite the ever increasing popularity of handheld, networked gaming consoles, fully interactive real-time, multiplayer games designed for these platforms have yet to become a reality. This is primarily caused by the reliance of these handheld devices on telecoms networks such as GPRS and 3G to enable communications between players, introducing network latencies beyond the capacity of existing games and supporting consistency mechanisms to operate successfully.This paper motivates the need for a new approach to consistency in mobile multiplayer gaming environments, and introduces Rendezvous, a novel solution to the high latency consistency problem, based on the concept of elegant recovery from an inconsistent shared state, rather than the more traditional approach of prevention of the initial inconsistency. The paper goes on to present preliminary design, implementation and evaluation of Rendezvous, with respect to its application to a mobile real-time multiplayer game written for the smart phone platform called Knockabout.