Blockchain and games: A novel middleware for blockchain-based multiplayer games

Vladimir Shcherba; Rasheed Hussain

doi:10.1145/3472716.3472845

Blockchain and games: A novel middleware for blockchain-based multiplayer games

Vladimir Shcherba
, Rasheed Hussain

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Abstract

Multiplayer computer games can be divided into two architectural groups: Client-server and Peer-to-Peer (P2P). While the peer-to-peer approach is very promising due to its independence of expensive game servers, a number of issues, such as state synchronization in an un-trusted environment, arise. Blockchain networks are a special case of a P2P network, and they have the potential to efficiently tackle some issues with P2P-based multiplayer games. However, blockchain development is a vast and complicated area, foreign to most game developers. In this paper, we present a framework to connect an existing game client to a blockchain network, friendly towards game developers. More precisely, we develop a middleware solution and a data model therein, to store the game state on a chain and communicate it to the game client.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	9-11
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450386296
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3472716.3472845
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2021
Event	2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, SIGCOMM 2021, Part of SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 23 Aug 2021 → 27 Aug 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021

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Conference	2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, SIGCOMM 2021, Part of SIGCOMM 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	23/08/21 → 27/08/21

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blockchain games
middleware
multi-player games
peer-to-peer games
polkadot protocol

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Shcherba, V., & Hussain, R. (2021). Blockchain and games: A novel middleware for blockchain-based multiplayer games. In Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021 (pp. 9-11). (Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472716.3472845

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Shcherba, V & Hussain, R 2021, Blockchain and games: A novel middleware for blockchain-based multiplayer games. in Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021. Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 9-11, 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, SIGCOMM 2021, Part of SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 23/08/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472716.3472845

Blockchain and games: A novel middleware for blockchain-based multiplayer games. / Shcherba, Vladimir; Hussain, Rasheed.
Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 9-11 (Proceedings of the 2021 SIGCOMM 2021 Poster and Demo Sessions, Part of SIGCOMM 2021).

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