ONLINE GAME SERVER ARCHITECTURE USING SHARED RENDERING

摘要

A server arrangement for controlling a video game viewable by game participants at a plurality of respective terminals. The server arrangement has a game engine to output graphical scenes collectively representing a virtual world with game characters, each graphical scene describing a portion of the virtual world. The server arrangement also has a shared-rendering engine for associating game participants with respective graphical scenes and for performing a shared-rendering operation on the graphical scenes to generate respective moving-image data streams, the shared-rendering operation being common for the game participants that are associated by the shared-rendering engine with the same graphical scene.

主权项

1. A server arrangement for controlling a video game viewable by game participants at a plurality of respective terminals in communication with the server arrangement, the server arrangement comprising:
(a) a game engine to generate source graphics data conveying a plurality of graphical scenes, the graphical scenes collectively representing a virtual world with game characters, each graphical scene describing at least a portion of the virtual world; (b) a shared-rendering engine for:
(i) associating game participants with respective graphical scenes;(ii) performing a shared-rendering operation on a first graphical scene to generate a moving-image data stream, the shared-rendering operation being common for game participants that are associated by the shared-rendering engine with the first graphical scene; (c) an output for transmitting the moving-image data stream to the game terminals of the game participants associated with the first graphical scene.