UbiSettlers--A Dynamically Adapting Mobile P2P Multiplayer Game for Hybrid Networks

Hiedels, C.; Hoff, Christian; Rothkugel, Steffen; Wehling, Ulf

doi:10.1109/percomw.2007.120

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“…There exist fewer online multiplayer games for mobile phones due to challenges related to latency, packet loss, and low bandwidth. Some examples of commercial and research mobile online games for mobile phones are Pirates of the Caribbean [2], Samurai Romanesque [3], Tibia Micro Edition [4], UbiSettlers [5], Real Tournament [6], and Knockabout [7]. One of the main challenges when developing multiplayer online games is how to handle network latency.…”

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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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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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“…Este jogo [49] de estratégia em tempo real coloca jogador responsável por administrar uma ilha representada por seu dispositivo pessoal. Nestaé possível erguer edificações, coletar recursos e combater ameaças.…”

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Jogos ubíquos reconfiguráveis: da concepção à construção

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In and out of Reality: Janus-Faced Location Awareness in Ubiquitous Games

Höhfeld¹

2007

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Many future ubiquitous devices will be able to determine their precise physical position using different types of localization techniques (e.g. GPS antennas for outdoor-, RFID tags, infrared beacons or triangulation etc. in indoor settings). Especially for games in a mobile environment usage of the devices, respectively player’s location will capacitate new game functionality and content. Location Awareness in this context is twofold though, corresponding to the games’ focus: Either the player’s actions can be influenced by providing additional information according to the devices physical location (augmented or mixed reality) or location awareness directly or indirectly alters content and state of the game (location immersion). This work focuses on the presentation of two ubiquitous strategy games, which are based on the same uniform middleware for MANETs, implementing the above mentioned different forms of location awareness.

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UbiSettlers--A Dynamically Adapting Mobile P2P Multiplayer Game for Hybrid Networks

Cited by 3 publications

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

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

Jogos ubíquos reconfiguráveis: da concepção à construção

In and out of Reality: Janus-Faced Location Awareness in Ubiquitous Games

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