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The Multi-User Application Platform (MUPE) is a platform for rapid development of mobile multi-user context-aware applications. MUPE server implements a persistent user-authenticated service that can be customized into a game server. The game logic is written to the MUPE server and the end-users download the game User Interface (UI) to their terminals. This paper studies how MUPE can be used to create mobile multi-player games. This paper analyzes the important aspects of MUPE in game development and the different parts involved in developing games with MUPE. Two games made with MUPE are introduced and analyzed. The games presented in this paper and the MUPE system are available at the MUPE website http://www.mupe.net under the Nokia open source license version 1.0a.
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Suomela, R., Räsänen, E., Koivisto, A., Mattila, J. (2004). Open-Source Game Development with the Multi-user Publishing Environment (MUPE) Application Platform. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2004. ICEC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28643-1_39
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