Fueling Game Development in Mobile P2P Environments

Nowadays wireless networks are becoming increasingly popular in urban areas, university campuses and corporate environments. This, along with the widespread deployment of mobile devices with advanced computational capabilities, creates more opportunities for developing collaborative/social applications. The development of such applications often raises a number of challenges for the developer mostly due to synchronization issues, increased network failures of the wireless environment and limited resource availability. In this paper we present a novel framework that tackles the above problems and releases the developer from the burden of dealing with cross-domain problems. We focus on the development of a certain type of applications, inside the context of ubiquitous gaming, in a small scale peer-to-peer manner.