The design and implementation of a MOO
โ Scribed by Ivan Tomek
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 700 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1084-8045
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โฆ Synopsis
Although the existing literature provides numerous examples of text-based virtual environments (MUDs and MOOs), there are no papers describing their design and implementation. This article fills this gap by explaining MUM (Multi-Universe MOO), an innovative event-driven MOO with multiple interconnected universes. Among MUM's notable features are the use of servers and metaservers to manage the multiple universes, purely event-driven operation, and off-loading of universe servers by performing as much processing on clients as possible.
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