Scaling Games to Epic Proportions
Summary: Scales AI for games by reframing NPC scripting as data-management. Introduces SGL, a data-driven scripting language; uses advanced query processing and indexing to support epic-scale NPC behavior; experiments validate scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Walker White
- 2. Alan Demers
- 3. Christoph Koch
- 4. Johannes Gehrke
- 5. Rajmohan Rajagopalan
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,436 | Fast Checkpoint Recovery Algorithms for Frequently Consistent Applications | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011987961 |
| 3,069 | Evita Raced: Metacompilation for Declarative Networks | 2008 | VLDB | 7.6151182e-05 |
| 3,626 | Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce | 2010 | VLDB | 6.9047458e-05 |
| 4,746 | An Experimental Analysis of Iterated Spatial Joins in Main Memory | 2013 | VLDB | 5.9571146e-05 |
| 5,327 | An Evaluation of Checkpoint Recovery for Massively Multiplayer Online Games | 2009 | VLDB | 5.5671416e-05 |
| 9,110 | Database Research in Computer Games | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.3942503e-05 |
| 9,522 | SGL: A Scalable Language for Data-Driven Games | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.3319585e-05 |
| 12,290 | From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games | 2009 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 13,557 | SEMMO: A Scalable Engine for Massively Multiplayer Online Games | 2008 | SIGMOD | - |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 647 | Progressive Approximate Aggregate Queries with a Multi-Resolution Tree Structure | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00018668224 |
| 4,815 | Extensible Optimization in Overlay Dissemination Trees | 2006 | SIGMOD | 5.9018361e-05 |
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