GameOD: An Internet Based Game-On-Demand Framework

Li, Frederick; Lau, Rynson; Kilis, Danny

Abstract

Multiplayer online 3D games are becoming very popular in recent years. However, existing games require the complete game content to be installed prior to game playing. Since the content is usually large in size, it may be difficult to run these games on a PDA or other handheld devices. It also pushes game companies to distribute their games as CDROMs/DVDROMs rather than online downloading. On the other hand, due to network latency, players may perceive discrepant status of some dynamic game objects. In this paper, we present a game-on-demand (GameOD) framework to distribute game content progressively in an on-demand manner. It allows critical contents to be available at the players' machines in a timely fashion. We present a simple distributed synchronization method to allow concurrent players to synchronize their perceived game status. Finally, we show some performance results of the proposed framework.

Citation

Li, F., Lau, R., & Kilis, D. (2004, November). GameOD: An Internet Based Game-On-Demand Framework. Presented at ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology VRST '04., Hong Kong

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology VRST '04.
• Start Date: Nov 10, 2004
• End Date: Nov 12, 2004
• Publication Date: 2004-11
• Deposit Date: Jan 23, 2009
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 129-136
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1077534.1077559
• Keywords: Distributed synchronization, Distributed virtual environments, Multiplayer online games, On-demand replication.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1161138
• Additional Information: Conference dates: 10-12 November, 2004.