Complex Video Games

By Teddy Peterson on October 1st, 2007

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Complex games operate partly on a player’s own computer and partly on central servers run by the game companies. Essentially, the individual computer reports to the game on the mouse clicks or trigger pulls performed by the player, and the game registers the appropriate response. That’s where cheating hacks often occur: Tell your computer to report 100 trigger pulls for every one actually made, and you’ve turned a pistol into a machine gun that racks up points much faster. McGraw and Hoglund offer ideas for how game makers could seal up such holes. And they argue that the entire software industry needs to be watching, since these “massively multiplayer online role-playing games” are at the leading edge of computing.

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