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2007
13 years 6 months ago
Nonverbal communication in multiplayer game worlds
In this paper, methods for nonverbal communication in digital games and virtual worlds are explored as alternatives to chat and other text-based forms of communication. Inspired b...
Troy Innocent, Stewart Haines
DIGRA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Supporting visual elements of non-verbal communication in computer game avatars
Communication between players in networked computer games is often inadequately implemented. The games do not exploit the full potential of using different forms of communication ...
Tomi Kujanpää, Tony Manninen
ICCNMC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On Mitigating Network Partitioning in Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Games
Recently, peer-to-peer infrastructure has been proposed to support massively multiplayer games in the literature. However, when underlying network partitions due to network outages...
Yuan He, Yi Zhang, Jiang Guo
NETGAMES
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Zoned federation of game servers: a peer-to-peer approach to scalable multi-player online games
Today’s Multi-player Online Games (MOGs) are challenged by infrastructure requirements, because of their server-centric nature. Peer-to-peer networks are an interesting alternat...
Takuji Iimura, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Youki Kadobayashi
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using n-trees for scalable event ordering in peer-to-peer games
We are concerned with the fundamental problem of event ordering in multiplayer peer-to-peer games. Event ordering, even without faults, requires all-to-all message passing with at...
Chris GauthierDickey, Virginia Mary Lo, Daniel Zap...