Game Management Server Scheduling and Opponent Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional multiplayer games via networks often fail to match players with suitable opponents, leading to uneven gaming experiences due to differing experience levels.
Innovation Solution
A game management server and system that allow users to schedule and manage multiplayer games, enabling users to announce and reserve participation in games, ensuring opponents are matched based on skill levels, with features like entry management, execution, and result presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If a multiplayer game is announced and players are matched immediately, then the game can start quickly, but players may not be matched with appropriate opponents of similar skill levels
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by announcing the game in advance and collecting entry reservations before the actual game starts. This allows time for proper opponent matching while ensuring players are committed to participating, thus resolving the contradiction between quick start and quality matching.
2Reliability
If opponent matching is performed carefully to ensure appropriate skill levels, then gameplay quality improves, but the process becomes more complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
Players themselves perform the matching function by registering their skill levels and preferences in advance. The system automatically matches players based on this pre-registered information, eliminating the need for complex real-time matching algorithms while ensuring quality opponents are paired.
3Reliability
If players are allowed to reserve entries in advance, then opponent matching quality improves, but the system requires more management functions
Solution Approach 1:
Entry reservations are collected in advance before the game starts, allowing the system to organize matches based on pre-registered player information. This preliminary collection of data simplifies the actual matching process while ensuring quality opponent pairing.
Data Source
AI summary
In a game management server that manages a network multiplayer game, a game-holding-prior-notice-receiving unit receives a date and time for a prospective multiplayer game being held, and conditions for holding the game, and the unit registers them into a database. An entry-reservation-receiving unit announces a prior notice of the meeting being held and calls for participants. A user who desires to participate requests the entry-reservation-receiving unit to make an entry reservation. When receiving the entry reservation, the entry-reservation-receiving unit registers the reservation into a database. When the date and time that the meeting is expected to be held arrives, the execution managing unit generates data necessary for executing the meeting and manages the execution of the meeting to be held. A result presenting unit presents the result of the meeting.