Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game

Massive Multiplayer Online Game Architectures

This p ap er investigates the architectu re of Massive Mu ltip layer Online Gam es. The main purpose is to explore the two different architectures that have surfaced, namely client-server and p eer-top eer, and analyze how these relate to each other. So far MMOG d evelop ers have alm ost exclu sively u sed client server architectu res to im p lem ent their gam es, bu t recently a lot of scienti...

A JCSP.net Implementation of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game

We have developed a simple massively multiplayer online game system as a test bed for evaluating the usefulness and performance of JCSP.net. The system consists of a primary login server, secondary servers managing play on geographically distinct playing fields, and an arbitrary number of players. The basic structure of the game system is fairly simple, and has been verified to be free from dea...

Played and Designed Sociality in a Massive Multiplayer Online Game

Creative Process Engagement in a Multiplayer Online Ideation Game

This paper aims to discuss the use of a hedonic system, i.e. a multiplayer online ideation game (OIG), to integrate users into the generation of ideas for real-world problems. An OIG, which was played by the surveyed participants for total of more than 1070 hours, was therefore evaluated in a twofold approach: Firstly, we examined the degree of players' creative process engagement in a longitud...

Living city: a collaborative browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game

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 at...