Questions tagged [scalability]
Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth. A scalable system can adopt to a growing demand (e.g. a growing number of users).
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How to write a network game? [closed]
Based on Why is it so hard to develop a MMO?:
Networked game development is not trivial; there are large obstacles to overcome in not only latency, but cheat prevention, state management and load ...
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How is load balancing achieved in MMOs?
I believe it's a common requirement of MMOs that processing for a single shard or realm can be done over several servers to ease the load. I'm curious as to how this can be done whilst maintaining a ...
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Elegant way to simulate large amounts of entities within a game world
Assume you have a game in which there are many (many many) entities serving some functions, not all of which are constantly needed or need to be considered in every frame. The concrete problem I am ...
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Is there a reason to add options to not use advanced technologies in a game engine?
I have been developing a game engine, and have been discovering and reading up on game technologies such as anisotropic filtering, ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing, etc.
Usually in games, you can ...
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Game log format for MMO servers
A log of game events (as opposed to error / debug logs) for an entire cluster/shard is very useful for a commercial MMO that is in a live production environment, providing vital support for customer ...
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Architecture for scaling a large 2D MMORPG world vs player load
I want to make 2D MMORPG in a post-apocalyptic world.
I would like to make the game world seamless and big, with big battles for the players. Something similar is in Eve Online (in 3D), but I do not ...
