TileShifter: A Peer-2-Peer Multiplayer Game for Smartphones
Translated title
TileShifter: Et Peer-2-Peer Multiplayer Spil til Smartphones
Authors
Heslegrave, Jais ; Justesen, Thomas
Term
2. term
Education
Publication year
2011
Submitted on
2011-07-29
Pages
77
Abstract
Mange bruger deres smartphones til at fordrive ventetid med arbejde (læse og besvare e-mails) eller underholdning (spil). I takt med at smartphonemarkedet er vokset, er antallet af apps steget. Alligevel understøtter få mobilspil multiplayer, især for større grupper. Denne afhandling præsenterer TileShifter: et actionpræget, skalerbart multiplayer-spil baseret på peer-to-peer, hvor telefoner forbinder direkte uden en central server. Målet er at vise, at nutidens smartphones, trods begrænsede ressourcer, kan understøtte skalerbar multiplayer. For at opnå dette bruger TileShifter et skræddersyet sæt algoritmer, der passer til spillets mekanikker og dets flisebaserede virtuelle verden.
People often use smartphones to fill waiting time, with work (reading or replying to email) or entertainment (games). As the smartphone market has grown, so has the number of apps. Yet in mobile gaming, few apps support multiplayer, especially for larger groups. This thesis presents TileShifter: an action-focused, scalable multiplayer game built on a peer-to-peer model, where phones connect directly rather than through a central server. The aim is to show that, despite limited resources on mobile devices, today’s smartphones can support scalable multiplayer play. To achieve this, TileShifter uses a custom set of algorithms tailored to the game’s mechanics and its tile-based virtual world.
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Keywords
Master Thesis ; Project ; computer science ; game ; multiplayer ; smartphone ; android ; unity
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