Evolution of Multiplayer Software: From Games to Tools ⚡

Written by taskade | Published 2020/08/22
Tech Story Tags: remote | remote-work | productivity | slack | communication | collaboration | team-productivity | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR Multiplayer video games and collaboration software have much more in common than meets the eye. Video games popularized real-time communication and collaboration long before Google Wave’s debut in 2009. In this article, we wind back the clock and explore this unusual relationship: Multiplayer games provide the environment, interface and technical infrastructure that enable two or more players to participate in the same session of a game. Multiplayer mode is usually implemented as:. The essence of multiplayer is not really about playing games at the same time but rather sharing the experience and interacting with others.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/22