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SimPort: A multiplayer management game framework

Jeroen Warmerdam, Maxim Knepfle, Rafael Bidarra, Geertje Bekebrede, and Igor Mayer

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The serious games industry needs game engines, or frameworks, that have been developed specifically with this sector in mind. This paper discusses the benefits of creating a serious gaming engine. This is demonstrated on the basis of SimPort, a novel multiplayer management game framework. SimPort has shown to be very powerful, functional and easy to use in the development of MV2, a game module simulating a major expansion project, the Maasvlakte 2 area, of the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In addition, from MV2 real-life usage so far, players and tutors have concluded that this game is not only educational, but also a lot of fun to play.

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@inbook{bib:warmerdam:2006,
    author       = { Warmerdam, Jeroen and Knepfle, Maxim and Bidarra, Rafael and Bekebrede, Geertje and Mayer, Igor },    
    title        = { SimPort: A multiplayer management game framework },
    booktitle    = { CGames },
    year         = { 2006 },
    pages        = { 219--224 },
    publisher    = { University of Wolverhampton School of Computing },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/548 },
}