What the Assassin's Guild Taught Me About Distributed Computing

dc.contributor.advisor	Gerald Sussman
dc.contributor.author	Beal, Jacob
dc.contributor.other	Mathematics and Computation
dc.date.accessioned	2006-06-01T16:22:12Z
dc.date.available	2006-06-01T16:22:12Z
dc.date.issued	2006-05-27
dc.identifier.other	MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-038
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32984
dc.description.abstract	Distributed computing and live-action roleplaying share many of thesame fundamental problems, as live-action roleplaying games commonly include simulations carried out by their players.Games run by the MIT Assassin's Guild are particularly illustrative ofdistributed computing issues due to their large scope and highcomplexity.I discuss three distributed computing issues addressed by Assassin'sGuild game design---information hiding, error correction, andliveness/consistency tradeoffs---and the relevance of the solutionsused by game writers to current problems in distributed computing.
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dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
dc.title	What the Assassin's Guild Taught Me About Distributed Computing