Building Community and Collaboration Applications for MMOGs

Joint Authors

Bouras, Christos
Papazois, Andreas
Kapoulas, Vaggelis
Adam, George

Source

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

Issue

Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-13, 13 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2012-09-11

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

13

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

Abstract EN

Supporting collaborative activities among the online players are one of the major challenges in the area of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG), since they increase the richness of gaming experience and create more engaged communities.

To this direction, our study has focused on the provision of services supporting and enhancing the players' in-game community and collaboration activities.

We have designed and implemented innovative tools exploiting a game adaptation technology, namely, the In-game Graphical Insertion Technology (IGIT), which permits the addition of web-based applications without any need from the game developers to modify the game at all, nor from the game players to change their game installation.

The developed tools follow a design adapted to the MMOG players' needs and are based on the latest advances on Web 2.0 technology.

Their provision is performed through the core element of our system, which is the so-called Community Network Game (CNG) Server.

One of the important features provided by the implemented system's underlying framework is the utilization of enhanced Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology for the distribution of user-generated live video streams.

In this paper, we focus on the architecture of the CNG Server as well as on the design and implementation of the online community and collaboration tools.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Adam, George& Bouras, Christos& Kapoulas, Vaggelis& Papazois, Andreas. 2012. Building Community and Collaboration Applications for MMOGs. International Journal of Computer Games Technology،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-13.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Adam, George…[et al.]. Building Community and Collaboration Applications for MMOGs. International Journal of Computer Games Technology No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-13.
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American Medical Association (AMA)

Adam, George& Bouras, Christos& Kapoulas, Vaggelis& Papazois, Andreas. Building Community and Collaboration Applications for MMOGs. International Journal of Computer Games Technology. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-512305

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-512305