creators_name: Ferrara, Emilio
creators_name: Fiumara, Giacomo
creators_name: Pagano, Francesco
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2011-10-27 01:34:52
lastmod: 2011-10-27 01:34:52
metadata_visibility: show
title: Living City, A Collaborative Browser-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Game
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-hci
full_text_status: public
note: ISBN: 978-963-9799-87-5
abstract: This work presents the design and implementation of our Browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game, Living City, a simulation game fully developed at the University of Messina. Living City is a persistent and real-time digital world, running in the Web browser environment and accessible from users without any client-side installation. Today Massively Multiplayer Online Games attract the attention of Computer Scientists both for their architectural peculiarity and the close interconnection with the social network phenomenon. We will cover these two aspects paying particular attention to some aspects of the project: game balancing (e.g. algorithms behind time and money balancing); business logic (e.g., handling concurrency, cheating avoidance and availability) and, finally, social and psychological aspects involved in the collaboration of players, analyzing their activities and interconnections.
date: 2010
date_type: published
publisher: ICST
pagerange: 1-8
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Ferrara, Emilio and Fiumara, Giacomo and Pagano, Francesco  (2010) Living City, A Collaborative Browser-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Game.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7662/2/disio-final.pdf