Title: Design, Modeling, Architecture and Development for Multiplayer Games: A Complex Systems based approach to deliver Emergence in Massively Multiplayer Game Engines
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3838379195
ISBN 13: 9783838379197
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Synopsis

Games involve alot of creativity and imagination to design. On top of that it requires discipline and skill from a very cohesive development team to turn their design into a successful commercial product. The ROI can be disappointing if the lifespan of the game after release is short. This book is a one stop shop to develop games of the future that will constantly evolve after release to give gamers an engaging and entertaining experience through the use of emergent behaviors in Complex Systems. This book proposes a formal approach to modeling a number of elements in a game as resources, and implements it as part of a game component framework. A model of resources is constructed, and a number of resource control methods to ensure the flow of resources in the game are also developed. The book then demonstrates how to make use of the model to implement self-evolving emergent behavior. A software architecture based on the need to support the framework, model and emergent requirements is also proposed. A multi-tiered architecture as well as an emergent object-composition framework are presented in this book to enable readers to develop their own emergent game.

About the Author

Viknashvaran received his BEng (Hons.) in Computer Engineering from NTU, Singapore in 2004. He graduated with a MPhil in Game Technology from Murdoch University, Australia in 2007. He has over seven years of R&D experience in Game and Game related technologies and has developed numerous commercial games with leading developers such as Ubisoft.

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