Practical middleware for massively multiplayer online games

Author

Hsiao, Tsun-Yu ; Yuan, Shyan-Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

9

Issue

5

fYear

2005

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

54

Abstract

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) lets thousands of players interact simultaneously within a virtual world via the Internet. Middleware plays an important role in the development of next-generation MMOGs, which must be built on platforms that address not only the service aspect, but also code maintainability and development for programmers. The authors´ compact, high-performance message-oriented middleware has a code-generation programming model that is designed to address many of these problems.

Keywords

Internet; computer games; human computer interaction; middleware; object-oriented programming; program compilers; virtual reality; Internet; code development; code maintainability; code-generation programming model; massively multiplayer online game; message-oriented middleware; virtual world; Asia; Games; Message-oriented middleware; Programming profession; Protocols; Quality of service; Security; Subscriptions; Web and internet services; World Wide Web; MMOG; gaming middleware; massively multiplayer online game;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2005.106

Filename

1510604