Age of Ascent

Age of Ascent is video game,[2] aiming "to become the biggest MMO ever".[3] It uses an on-demand scaling cloud-based architecture and features real-time direct piloting in a single integrated universe.[4] It was announced on February 28, 2014.

Age of Ascent
Developer(s)Illyriad Games[1]
Publisher(s)Illyriad Games
Platform(s)Web browser
Genre(s)Space trading and combat simulator, first-person shooter
Mode(s)Multiplayer

On March 14, 2014 Age of Ascent sought to officially break the Guinness World Record for the "World's Largest Videogame PvP Battle" in a public alpha.[5] The alpha was designed for 50,000+ players with a throttling mechanism for up to 2,000,000. At peak they had 997 concurrent players using 2% of their deployed server CPU capacity and did not break the record of 4075.[6]

One particularity of the game as opposed to other games of the genre, is that it is browser-based and relies heavily on WebGL for its implementation, allowing players to drop in and start playing, irrespective of their device, and without the need to install plug-ins, apps or executables.[7]

Scale

Powered by Microsoft Azure, Age of Ascent has been designed from the ground up allowing it to run across hundreds of computers, yet create a single, fluid, cohesive universe. It is said "Age of Ascent will usher in a new era of ultra-MMOs".[8]

Illyriad Games worked closely with the Microsoft Technology Centre and the Microsoft Developer eXperience Technical Evangelism & Development team to fully exploit the Azure platform.

To achieve responsiveness the game is partitioned across a number of datacenters, geographically distributed across the globe, offering high-bandwidth, low-latency network access for the players.

See also

References
  1. Maiberg, Emanuel (March 3, 2014). "Age of Ascent attempts to create the largest PvP battle in history March 14". PC Gamer. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  2. Hindman, Beau (February 28, 2014). "MMObility: Age of Ascent hopes to beat EVE Online's battle concurrency record". Joystiq. Archived from the original on September 28, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  3. "How Age of Ascent Aims to Become the Biggest MMO Ever". Intel. June 23, 2014. Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  4. Walden, Chris. "Age of Ascent: Defining a new genre and plans to smash a world record". Microsoft. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  5. Burns, Chris (March 14, 2014). "Age of Ascent aims at world record for largest video game battle". SlashGear. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  6. Kidd, Neil (March 16, 2014). "Not enough Space combat in Windows Azure!". Microsoft. Archived from the original on April 18, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  7. Shewchuk, John (November 4, 2014). "Building a massively-multiplayer game on Microsoft Azure". Microsoft. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  8. Donnelly, John; Duizer, Anko; Gristwood, David; Kidd, Neil. "Age of Ascent, an epic space game on Microsoft Azure". Microsoft Developer Network. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
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