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Distributed game simulation is a single simulation, which has been distributed over multiple processors and interconnected via a network. The game entities are synchronized in a manner, which try to ensure that the game is playable and fair, despite network latencies.
Introduction
Many computer games present dynamically modelled game environments, which are dynamic in the sense that they change over time. Changes to the environment are typically initiated by events, which can be created by users (e.g., players) or other events. Simulation in a computer game uses discrete time, as the state of the environment is inspected in discrete points in time. This is called discrete event simulation. Inspection of the states does not necessarily have to be inspected at even intervals, but when something occurs that can change a state in the system. Events are placed in an event queue and ordered by the timestamp of...
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Ikonen, J. (2018). Distributed Simulation and Games. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_226-1
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