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Sunday, 2 September 2012

The System Design Of A Spaceship Game

By Erick H. Hane


In recent years an extensive numbers of spaceship game options have become available to gamers who want to enjoy a science fiction based game online. A growing range of MMORPG's, or massively multiplayer online role playing games, are emerging onto the market with science fiction themes and fun space based battles. The popular genre of role playing games, or RPG's, serves as the core building block upon which the more advanced system architecture of MMORPG's are established; they rely on the Internet to keep the game running. What are a few of the manners in which the Internet is used to manage such large online gaming communities?

Any spaceship game that is designed as an MMORPG is based on a client-server system that allows individual gamers to log on to the game's main server. This allows the gaming business to keep an instance of the game running constantly so that players from around the world are always able to log on and the gaming environment is in a constant state of change, just like the real world. Some companies sell the client software and also charge a monthly fee for gamers to stay connected to the servers which need to be constantly monitored and maintained; other games are free to play and run directly on a Web browser.

The server system that many online spaceship game makers use enables you to play together with lots of other gamers in a way not previously possible in console games. Instead of making your PC run the entire game on its own, your computer is actually linking up with an entire server of other players who are also sharing the same world. All game interactions, from teaming up on a quest to chatting through a voice chat program, is managed through the server you and other players are connected to.

Browser based RPG's used to be considered to be simple and rather poor graphically, but that is changing as designers take advantage of new technology. But these games are also easier to log onto, require less bandwidth, and are either free or much less expensive that games that require additional client software.

You can spend hour after hour exploring the world of your favorite spaceship game and develop an excellent character that you can be proud of. Thanks to the complicated design of their server technology you can log on whenever you want and find hundreds of other gamers to interact with.




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