Software Engineering of Networked Digital Games

网络数字游戏软件工程

• 批准号: 138441-2012
• 负责人: Graham, Nicholas
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=569351
• 关键词: Software; Engineering; Networked; Digital; Games

Digital games have become an increasingly important form of entertainment. Their appeal includes their engaging interactive nature, the social opportunities they afford through networked play, and their wide availability on platforms ranging over the web, mobile phones, specialized consoles, and traditional PCs. Game developers face relentless pressure to deliver better graphics, more realistic physics, more natural forms of interaction, and support for larger networked groups. Thus, games are becoming more expensive to produce and require ever more sophisticated expertise to create. At the same time, prices of game are dropping (particularly around mobile and social platforms.) Games are also proving valuable in specialized markets such as education, advertising and physical therapy, where the large teams and budgets used by traditional studios are not available. To help address these problems, we will research novel techniques aiding in the software engineering of networked games. Our goal is to raise the level of programming of networked games, providing highly-performant support for dealing with the hard problems of network communication, persistence, and consistency maintenance in presence of lag. This work will result in new programming abstractions, reified in experimental toolkits. Our new techniques will be applied to two demonstration projects, in exercise video games for children with Cerebral Palsy, and in orchestration of military simulations.

数字游戏已成为越来越重要的娱乐形式。他们的吸引力包括他们引人入胜的互动性质，通过网络游戏提供的社会机会以及在网络上的广泛可用性，手机，专用控制台和传统PC。 游戏开发人员面临着不懈的压力，可以提供更好的图形，更现实的物理，更自然的互动形式以及对大型网络组的支持。因此，游戏变得越来越昂贵，并且需要越来越复杂的专业知识才能创建。同时，游戏的价格正在下降（尤其是在移动和社交平台附近）。游戏也在教育，广告和物理疗法等专业市场中也很有价值，在这些市场中，传统工作室使用的大型团队和预算不可用。 为了帮助解决这些问题，我们将研究协助网络游戏软件工程的新技术。我们的目标是提高网络游戏的编程水平，为应对网络通信，持久性和在存在滞后的一致性维护方面提供高度的支持。这项工作将导致新的编程摘要，并在实验工具包中进行了补充。我们的新技术将应用于两个示范项目，用于脑瘫儿童的锻炼视频游戏以及军事模拟的编排。