When the game launched, each server hosted 50 players, which meant the computer had to calculate and convey the impact of each player’s actions and conversation to 49 other players. In addition, because the team had recognized that chat enhanced the social experience of playing a multiplayer game, some of the packets had to accommodate conversations. Game instructions and content crossed phone lines in packets of information, and severe limits on the size of these packets made it difficult for programmers to coordinate the simultaneous actions of all the players.
Dial-up modems operated at speeds one-hundredth or one-thousandth of the rates of modems today.
Veteran game designer Don Daglow recently gave the International Center for the History of Electronic Games a collection of design documents, early drafts of code, play test reports, and other papers that document the development of his games, including Neverwinter Nights (1991), one of the most important games in the history of the industry.ĭaglow’s team had to overcome numerous technical hurdles to produce the game.
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