The goal of this project was to reduce the operating cost of a massively multiplayer game by making its servers more scalable. To accomplish this task we implemented two methods for improving the scalability. These two improvements are a peer-to-peer sub-layer and a means for allowing a client to become a temporary server. To test the effectiveness of our two improvements we implemented an original massively multiplayer game. The results from our experiments show improvements in latency and processing load.

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Creator

• King, Jesse D
• Platt, Brian B.
• Brommelhoff, Andrew Theodore
• Seitz, Allen Joseph

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05D510M

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright