Challenger: Blockchain-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game Architecture

Boris Chan Yip Hon; Bilel Zaghdoudi; Maria Potop-Butucaru; Sébastien Tixeuil; Serge Fdida

Paper 2024/726

Challenger: Blockchain-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game Architecture

Boris Chan Yip Hon, Sorbonne University

Bilel Zaghdoudi, Sorbonne University

Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sorbonne University

Sébastien Tixeuil, Sorbonne University

Serge Fdida, Sorbonne University

Abstract

We propose Challenger a peer-to-peer blockchain-based middleware architecture for narrative games, and discuss its resilience to cheating attacks. Our architecture orchestrates nine services in a fully decentralized manner where nodes are not aware of the entire composition of the system nor its size. All these components are orchestrated together to obtain (strong) resilience to cheaters. The main contribution of the paper is to provide, for the first time, an architecture for narrative games agnostic of a particular blockchain that brings together several distinct research areas, namely distributed ledgers, peer-to-peer networks, multi-player-online games and resilience to attacks.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Applications
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: multiplayer online games peer-to-peer architecture blockchain cheating resilience
Contact author(s): Boris Chan-Yip-Hon @ lip6 fr
Bilel Zaghdoudi @ lip6 fr
maria potop-butucaru @ lip6 fr
Sebastien Tixeuil @ lip6 fr
serge fdida @ lip6 fr
History: 2024-05-13: approved; 2024-05-12: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2024/726
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/726,
      author = {Boris Chan Yip Hon and Bilel Zaghdoudi and Maria Potop-Butucaru and Sébastien Tixeuil and Serge Fdida},
      title = {Challenger: Blockchain-based Massively Multiplayer Online Game Architecture},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/726},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/726}
}