Perpetual Entertainment, Inc
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www.perpetual.com Perpetual Entertainment Inc, San Francisco-based developer of networked multi-player games for the PC and next-generation videogame consoles.
Perpetual was developing game and “platform” technologies to assist the rapid and low-cost engineering/deployment of connected games. From October 2007 to February 2008 (following a transfer of assets) the company was known as P2 Entertainment. The company was best known for its development of two MMOs: Star Trek Online and Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising.
Perpetual Entertainment, Inc's projects
Configuration Management Tool
One of the complex problems facing online connected gaming is the constant flux of a large number of servers operating in clusters at a data center. To keep management costs low and allow the most possible utilization of this ‘farm’ of game servers Perpetual designed a system that allows simple single-point configuration and code migration for all servers within a data center. This planned tool must help directly configure software and OS components as well as migrate game data. Read more »
Platform Patching System
One of the challenges facing online game developers like Perpetual is providing a fast, simple, and reliable patching system to the end user. Perpetual needs to provide these patches to update game client code as well as to add content on a continuous basis. This tool runs on hundreds of thousands of windows clients and must be accurate and stable. Read more »
