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Q GAME DEVELOPMENT

November/December 2008 Volume 6 Number 7

2 November 2008 ACM QUEUE

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Scaling in Games
and Virtual Worlds
Jim Waldo, Sun
Microsystems Laboratories
What does it take to
build scalable, distributed
systems whose goal is
maximum fun?

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Better Scripts, Better Games Walker White, Christoph Koch, Johannes Gehrke, and Alan Demers, Cornell University How can scripting languages be better tailored to game development?

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