Manycraft: Massively Distributed Minecraft

Mathieu Valero (1) , Raluca Diaconu (1, 2) , Joaquín Keller (1)

1 Orange Labs [Issy les Moulineaux]
2 Regal - Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Applications

Minecraft is a popular game with more than 20 million paying users and many more playing the free version. However, in today's multiplayer mode, only a few thousand users can play together. For a common setting, when players cannot modify the map, we have designed a distributed system to scale the number of users. The Manycraft software runs on users' machines which communicate through Kiwano infrastructure. This paper describes its architecture and implementation. Manycraft node is available for download at http://manycraft.net, so we expect players to participate and join the demonstration at the given time slot.

Mots clés: Minecraft; Kiwano; Scalability

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Modélisation et simulation

Mathieu Valero, Raluca Diaconu, Joaquín Keller. Manycraft: Massively Distributed Minecraft. NetGames, Dec 2013, Denver, United States. pp.1 - 3, ⟨10.1109/NetGames.2013.6820616⟩. ⟨hal-01079510⟩