Advanced

Startup is counting on open source to launch its MMOG

Posted by dcparris on · 2 comments
Linux.com; By Tina Gasperson 		Mail this story
Print this story

Brazil-based Hoplon Infotainment is a startup game developer and an open source shop. Its upcoming first product, Taikodom, is a "massively multiplayer online game (MMOG)" that includes elements of science fiction and magic. Hundreds of thousands of online users can play an MMOG at the same time, but that requires a lot of server power. Hoplon called on open source tools for its software development needs, and IBM to help it provide the bandwidth and CPU strength it requires.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments (2)

Pretty standard approach

swbrown ·
Most MMOGs go the GNU/Linux route (cost, ease/depth of tuning, low overhead, high performance, proven clustering). Even the very first 'traditional' MMOG, Ultima Online, went up on GNU/Linux back in 1996. I remember seeing posts beforehand from OSI (the developers of UO) on the eepro100 dev list asking for help with a 9 machine cluster and wondering what the heck the developers of Ultima could possibly want with a 9 machine cluster. :)

Infotainment?

jezuch ·
Surely they aren't fans of Pitchshifter ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Infotainment.jpg [sorry, couldn't resist...]

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post