Analysis of factors affecting players' performance and perception in multiplayer games

Dick, Matthias; Wellnitz, Oliver; Wolf, Lars

doi:10.1145/1103599.1103624

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“…Similar results were presented by Dick et al in [9]. While experimenting with real-time network games, on a sample of 8 players, they showed that under the same network conditions (delay and delay variation) the quality of the game play experience varies between the players.…”

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State-of-the-Practice in Evaluation of Quality of Experience in Real-Life Environments

Matulin¹,

Mrvelj²

2013

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confidence: 82%

State-of-the-Practice in Evaluation of Quality of Experience in Real-Life Environments

Matulin¹,

Mrvelj²

2013

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“…Dick et al analyzed how network latency and jitter affected the performance and perception in multiplayer online games (wired) [16]. This paper presents a survey where players state their subjective perceptions for how network latency and jitter affect the performance and gameplay for twelve different games representing four different game genres: first-person shooter, real-time strategy game, sport game, and car racing simulation.…”

Section: Games and Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences from Implementing a Mobile Multiplayer Real‐Time Game for Wireless Networks with High Latency

Wang

Jarrett

Sorteberg

2009

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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This paper describes results and experiences from designing, implementing, and testing a multiplayer real-time game over mobile networks with high latency. The paper reports on network latency and bandwidth measurements from playing the game live over GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, and WLAN using the TCP and the UDP protocols. These measurements describe the practical constraints of various wireless networks and protocols when used for mobile multiplayer game purposes. Further, the paper reports on experiences from implementing various approaches to minimize issues related to high latency. Specifically, the paper focuses on a discussion about how much of the game should run locally on the client versus on the server to minimize the load on the mobile device and obtain sufficient consistency in the game. The game was designed to reveal all kinds of implementation issues of mobile network multiplayer games. The goal of the game is for a player to push other players around and into traps where they loose their lives. The game relies heavily on collision detection between the players and game objects. The paper presents experiences from experimenting with various approaches that can be used to handle such collisions, and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches.

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“…Variations in packet size, buffer delay, and routing create packet jitter. The influence of the jitter in games is measured in [26], [31], [32], and [33]. They conclude that jitter had only a minor impact on the win probability, the scores and the user experience.…”

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Masking the Effects of Delays in Human-to-Human Remote Interaction

Su¹,

Bjørndalen²,

Ha³

et al. 2014

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-Humans can interact remotely with each other through computers. Systems supporting this include teleconferencing, games and virtual environments. There are delays from when a human does an action until it is reflected remotely. When delays are too large, they will result in inconsistencies in what the state of the interaction is as seen by each participant. The delays can be reduced, but they cannot be removed. When delays become too large the effects they create on the humanto-human remote interaction can be partially masked to achieve an illusion of insignificant delays. The MultiStage system is a human-to-human interaction system meant to be used by actors at remote stages creating a common virtual stage. Each actor is remotely represented by a remote presence created based on a stream of data continuously recorded about the actor and being sent to all stages. We in particular report on the subsystem of MultiStage masking the effects of delays. The most advanced masking approach is done by having each stage continuously look for late data, and when masking is determined to be needed, the system switches from using a live stream to a pre-recorded video of an actor. The system can also use a computable model of an actor creating a remote presence substituting for the live stream. The present prototype uses a simple human skeleton model.

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Analysis of factors affecting players' performance and perception in multiplayer games

Cited by 162 publications

References 7 publications

State-of-the-Practice in Evaluation of Quality of Experience in Real-Life Environments

State-of-the-Practice in Evaluation of Quality of Experience in Real-Life Environments

Experiences from Implementing a Mobile Multiplayer Real‐Time Game for Wireless Networks with High Latency

Masking the Effects of Delays in Human-to-Human Remote Interaction

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