WEB SERVICES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PERSISTENT ONLINE GAME FACTIONS

François Deliège, Esteban Zimányi

2006

Abstract

Star Wars Combine is a game involving thousands of players in a virtual world. Each player impersonates a character that continues evolving even when the player is not connected. Players have formed groups, called factions, that are self-organized. The more members a faction has, the more complicated to manage it becomes. The goal of this work is to create an infrastructure to allow faction management tools to automatically update their data with the information maintained on the game server. The web services technology is chosen for the various advantages it offers. While this technology is already widely accepted in the business world, its use in a game context is totally new. It seems that web services have gained their place in the game world and will continue to be developed. Hopefully, this experiment will convince other game designers to adapt their platforms in a similar manner.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Deliège F. and Zimányi E. (2006). WEB SERVICES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PERSISTENT ONLINE GAME FACTIONS . In Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-46-7, pages 441-446. DOI: 10.5220/0001254204410446

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist06,
author={François Deliège and Esteban Zimányi},
title={WEB SERVICES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PERSISTENT ONLINE GAME FACTIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2006},
pages={441-446},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001254204410446},
isbn={978-972-8865-46-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - WEB SERVICES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PERSISTENT ONLINE GAME FACTIONS
SN - 978-972-8865-46-7
AU - Deliège F.
AU - Zimányi E.
PY - 2006
SP - 441
EP - 446
DO - 10.5220/0001254204410446