The Geobashing Architecture for Location-Based Mobile Massive Multiplayer Online Games

Author

Dieber, Bernhard ; Grassauer, Thomas ; Mayring, Jakob ; Rinner, Bernhard

Author_Institution

Inst. of Networked & Embedded Syst., Klagenfurt Univ., Klagenfurt, Austria

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 July 2010

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

The current trend towards more mobility will increasingly affect the gaming market over the next years. Location-based mobile massive multiplayer online games (MMMOG) will be a new paradigm in the gaming industry. Since building a game for a massive amount of mobile players is a challenging task, we have created a reusable architecture for location-aware mobile massive multiplayer online games. In this paper we describe our approach and present the Geobashing game, a location-based MMMOG implemented using our architecture. We evaluated our architecture to show its applicability.

Keywords

client-server systems; computer games; mobile computing; multi-access systems; gaming industry; gaming market; geobashing architecture; geobashing game; location based mobile massive multiplayer online game; mobile player; Computer architecture; Games; Global Positioning System; Load management; Mobile communication; Servers; Web services; Client–Server based services; Mobile Mixed Reality; Mobile gaming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST), 2010 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7649-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2010.15

Filename

5558246