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Car racing through the streets of the web: a high-speed 3D game over a fast synchronization service

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Stefano Cacciaguerra,

Stefano Ferretti,

Marco Roccetti,

Matteo RoffilliAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '05: Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web

Pages 884 - 885

https://doi.org/10.1145/1062745.1062780

Published: 10 May 2005 Publication History

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The growth of the Internet brought a new age for game developers. New exciting, highly interactive Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) may be now deployed on the Web, thanks to new scalable distributed solutions and amazing 3D graphics systems plugged directly into standard browsers. Along this line, taking advantage of a mirrored game server architecture, we developed a 3D car racing multiplayer game for use over the Web, freely inspired to Armagetron. Game servers are kept synchronized through the use of a fast synchronization scheme which is able to drop obsolete game events to uphold the playability degree while preserving the game state consistency. Preliminary results confirm that smart 3D spaces may be created over the Web where the magic of gaming is reproduced for the pleasure of a huge number of players. This result may be obtained only by converging highly accurate event synchronization technologies with 3D scene graph based rendering software.

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Ferretti SRoccetti MPalazzi C(2008)Intelligent Synchronization for Mirrored Game Servers: A Real Case StudyJournal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics10.20965/jaciii.2008.p013212:2(132-141)Online publication date: 20-Mar-2008
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WWW '05: Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web

May 2005

454 pages

ISBN:1595930515

DOI:10.1145/1062745

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Southern Cross University, Australia
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Chu C(2013)On efficient 3D data disseminationWireless Networks10.1007/s11276-013-0579-819:8(1901-1914)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2013
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Cacciaguerra SMirri SRoffilli MSalomoni P(2006)A participatory framework to support inclusive multi-playing for gamers in disadvantaged conditionsProceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Computers10.5555/1981848.1982022(949-954)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2006
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