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Posted by Space Cowboy at 19:47 13/4/2001.
Ever wanted to watch a game of CS between 2 top clans in real-time, with replay functions and other goodies?Well Valve are trying to pioneer the technology to allow you to do this. With computer games becoming more popular, it only seems logical to introduce such a system.
Stomped have caught up with Erik Johnson, the project manager at Valve, and quizzed him about it.
Stomped: What are the main features of this new tech?Johnson: The current multicast spectator allows an unlimited number of spectators to connect to a server at once. If the clients and server are multicast capable, then a proxy server connected to the game server could potentially host an infinite number of clients at once. The multicast spectator also allows users to view the map from a top-down view, where you can watch iconic representations of the players connected to the game. Network data can be buffered up at the proxy for an arbitrary amount of time, which will allow us to do some more interesting things in the future (i.e. instant replay of spectacular events).
I'm looking forward to this one, because it certainly beats sitting in IRC, or listening on Roger Wilco, when your clan is getting a thrashing!
