[gameprogrammer] Re: FPS with distributed servers
- From: Jacob Briggs <jacob_briggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:32:46 +1300
IIRC Doom3 was going to have a distributed server, but was deemed not
appropriate for whatever reason. Halo2's game server stuff is kinda
interesting, if the xbox hosting the game leaves, the server will
automatically jump to another players xbox. Not quite what your talking
about though. Personally I think having a distributed server would
introduce all sorts of weird latency issues, but thats a naive
assumption :) I would like to hear more on the subject.
Jake
Daniel Cordeiro wrote:
>Hi,
>
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>My name is Daniel and I'm a MSc. candidate student at University of
>Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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>I'm studying scalability of event-driven servers. In particular, I'm
>interested in finding ways to use some low-level operating system
>facilities to scale up this kind of servers. We will use the
>QuakeWorld server (from Quake I) as a proof-of-concept application.
>
>Before trying to scale up (add more players using only one machine),
>we will try to scale out (add more players using several machines).
>
>I wasn't able to find any example of first-person shooting (FPS) game
>(like Quake) that uses some kind of distributed computation for
>server-side (neither p2p or clustered architectures).
>
>Do you guys know any kind FPS that uses distributed server architecture?
>Or the latency introduced by this kind of server architecture is too
>high for FPS games?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Daniel
>
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