KR101816854B1 - Game service platform and method for providing game service thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A game service platform and a service providing method using the platform are disclosed. The platform can abstract the service components required for the game service as a computational resource. The game service platform can provide abstracted computer resources as a cloud service to users. In addition, the game service platform can handle billing for the use of computational resources.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a game service platform and a game service providing method using the same,

The following embodiments relate to a game service platform.

A game service platform providing abstracted computer resources and a game service providing method using the same.

An online game is a game that is played on a computer network.

For example, new and various online games, such as an app running on a mobile terminal such as a smartphone, are being serviced.

The technology used for online games is becoming increasingly complex, and technical and aesthetic requirements are also increasingly high. Therefore, the manufacturer of the online game can only provide online games that can receive a response in the market by inputting all the technical capabilities.

Generally, the resources required by a client of an online game are provided by a server platform.

Various existing platforms developed by different entities may not have a consistent form and may have various unusual usability.

This inconsistent form and various usability can increase the complexity of development required when developing an online game service using multiple platforms.

Therefore, there is a need to implement an infrastructure as a service (IAAS) as a service and a platform as a service (PaaS) as a service.

One embodiment of the present invention can provide a platform for server development of online games, a service for online games, and a game service using the platform.

One embodiment of the present invention can provide a platform and a method for providing computational resources to a user by abstracting a service component.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a game system comprising a service bus for processing a user's access to receive a service for a game, a storage server for storing data of the game received via the service bus, A resource controller for distributing and allocating resources to one or more game servers.

The resource controller may select the game server to distribute the game among the one or more game servers based on the load balancing policy.

The service bus may provide location transparency to the user for back-end services provided by the game service platform.

The game service platform may further include a global queue server that provides message transmission / reception and data exchange between the one or more game servers.

The game service platform may further include a global lock server that provides synchronization for shared data used between the one or more game servers.

The game service platform may further include a charging server for measuring the amount of the computer resources used by the user and for determining the charging based on the amount of the computer resources used.

The game service platform may further include a test server that provides the user with debugging and testing on the game service platform.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a game in which a service bus for processing a user connection receives data of a game, a storage server stores data of the received game, The method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a resource controller, distributing the game as a game service resource to a game server; and providing the game as a game service.

The game server may be one or more game servers.

The game service providing method may further include the step of the resource controller interlocking the game logic of the game with one or more service components.

Wherein the service component comprises at least one of a game domain based component and a game platform based component.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a service bus, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a connection between a user and a game service; providing a computer resource to the user via the connection; Measuring the amount of computer resources and determining a charge based on the amount of computer resources used.

The step of providing the computational resources may include the step of the service bus providing the user with reading and writing of data related to the game service.

A platform for server development of online games and services of online games is provided.

The platform may provide the user with the abstracted computational resources required for the online game service.

The above-mentioned platform can charge the user according to the usage amount of computer resources.

FIG. 1 illustrates a game service platform 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a structural diagram of a game service platform 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart of a method of providing a game service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flow diagram of a method for providing a service component 120 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to or limited by the embodiments. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

FIG. 1 illustrates a game service platform 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The game service platform 100 (hereinafter referred to as the platform 100) can be used for developing a server of an online game and can be used for providing an online game service.

The online game service may mean 1) a service (or a server function) necessary when making an online game, and 2) a service (or a server function) required when playing an online game .

As a function of a server required when creating an online game, the platform 100 may be a group of large user access processing, user ranking, matchmaking between users, chatting between users, groups of users (e.g., A room in a game, a lobby in a game, and the like may be provided by the platform 100.

In other words, when a game maker (or a game maker) wants to provide a specific game through a network, the game maker can provide all the services for providing an online game (e.g., a server function required when the above- , It is possible to put excessive resources in terms of time and cost.

Or it may be impossible or inadequate to produce all these services directly, depending on the capabilities of the game publisher.

In addition, even when a service is produced, it may be unreasonable for a game production company to provide such a service directly in terms of management or cost.

Accordingly, the game maker can provide all or a part of the service required for the online game by using the platform 100. [ A game user may use an online game service provided through the platform 100 by a direct method through a front-end of the platform 100 or indirectly via a portal of a game maker Can be used.

The platform 100 may manage computational resources 110 and hardware in the Internet range, similar to an operating system.

Here, 'management of the Internet range' means that it is possible to manage the hardware resources 110 and the hardware connected to the network.

In addition, the computerized resource 110 may mean that the service functions necessary for providing the online game service are abstracted as resources. For example, the computing resource 110 may include infra, software, and network for game services.

Also, 'hardware management' may mean managing hardware such as servers in the platform 100 and network bandwidth.

Management of the computational resources 110 by the platform 100 will be described below.

The platform 100 can define and manage the computational resources 110 required to provide the online game service and can abstract the computational resources 110 to provide the abstracted computational resources 110 as needed to the user have.

Here, the user may refer to one or more of game producers, game producers, game users, computer users of game users, and mobile terminals of game users. That is, the user may refer to any subject who is provided with the online game service.

In order to provide computational resources 110, the platform 100 may abstract service components 120 that are used for providing game services.

The service component 120 may refer to components designed to provide the functions required for the game service. The service component 120 may be a server that provides a specific service.

For example, the service component 120 may include a service bus 210, a storage server 220, a resource controller 230, a global queue server a global lock server 250, an account / billing server 260, a test server 270 and a game server 280. The server 260 may be a server, And the like.

The service component 120 may include a lock server, a scheduling server, a queue server, and the like, and may include a front-end server for various client environments.

The service component 120 may be classified according to a game domain. (Or a genre), such as a first-person shooter (FPS), a massive multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) And the functions of the second embodiment may be different from each other.

The service component 120 may be distinguished based on the game platform. (For example, a service bus 210 and a resource controller 230) that provide common functions necessary for a game service, 2) a service that provides functions necessary for storing game data, A service component 120 that provides components 120 (e.g., repository server 220) and 3) functions necessary for network services (e.g., global queue server 240 and global lock server 250) Can be.

That is, the service component 120 may include one or more of a game domain based component and a game platform based component.

The computational resources 110 provided by the platform 100 may, as a sub-concept, include game service resources.

The game service resource, as a sub-concept thereof, may include a game domain resource.

A game domain resource may refer to a game-specific resource of a particular type of game service resource (or computational resource 110). That is, there may be different game domain resources that are specific to various games among the game service resources. Also, the game domain resource may mean that the game domain component is abstracted as a resource.

The game domain resources may include game play, channel, room, lobby, ranking, match making, chat, and game logic.

The platform 100 may provide game domain resources according to a user's request.

The game service resource, as its sub-concept, may include game platform resources.

The game service resource may mean that the game service component 120 is abstracted as a resource. For example, the game service resources may include 1) a repository service provided via the repository server 220, 2) a front-end service provided by the service bus 210, 3) a queue service provided by the global queue server 240, And 4) a lock service provided by the global lock server 250 and the like.

In addition, the platform 100 can charge the user according to the usage amount of the computer resources 110. [

The platform 100 may be a distributed server platform using a plurality of distributed servers. This distributed server platform enables the platform 100 to provide a large amount of service to a large number of users.

By using the above distributed servers, the platform 100 can provide a cloud service to the user.

The cloud service may mean that, in terms of the service provider, each of a plurality of users can use the abstracted computational resource 110 as long as it is needed.

In addition, in the service user's viewpoint, the cloud service does not prepare the computational resources 110 required for on-premise by a large number of users, and uses the computational resources as much as necessary using the network And to pay for the amount of computing resources used.

The complexity of development in an online game service can be reduced by integrating various distributed game platforms in a cloud form by the platform 100.

In addition, the game developer can obtain a consistent effect by using a single platform (100) from the development of the game to the publishing.

2 is a structural diagram of a game service platform 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The game service platform 100 includes a service bus 210, a storage server 220, a resource controller 230, a global queue server 240, a global lock server 250, a billing server 260, a test server 270, And one or more game servers 280.

The service bus 210 may process a user's access to receive a service for the game.

That is, the service bus 210 may provide a front-end service for handling user connections.

As an example of the front-end service, the service bus 210 may receive data of the game. For example, a game maker can upload data of a game using a developer portal site, and the service bus 210 can receive data of the game during the uploading process.

In addition, the service bus 210 can receive a service start request of the game from the user. The service bus 210 may establish a connection between the user and the game service, and may provide the computer resource 110 to the user through the established connection.

The service bus 210 may provide location transparency to the back-end services provided by the platform 100 to the user.

The above-described back-end services include a storage server 220, a resource controller 230, a global queue server 240, a global lock server 250, a billing server 260, a test server 270, Services 280 may be one or more of the services provided by the servers 280 and the like.

In addition, the service bus 210 can provide game play to the user as a game service.

The storage server 220 provides a data storage service for a game.

The storage server 220 may store data for the game.

For example, the storage server 220 may store data of a game received by the service bus 210 (i.e., uploaded via the service bus 210).

The storage server 220 may provide a relational database management system (RDBMS). In addition, the repository server 220 can provide a NoSQL repository based on a document suitable for a game.

A NoSQL repository can represent a repository specialized for storing large amounts of data, rather than an existing relational database.

The resource controller 230 may distribute and allocate the abstracted computational resources 110 used by the game to specific ones of the one or more game servers 280. [ That is, when the user uploads the game to the platform 100, the resource controller 230 can automatically assign a specific game server among the one or more game servers 280 to the uploaded game, and can serve the game.

For example, the resource controller 230 may distribute a game stored in the storage server 220 as a game service resource to a specific one of the one or more game servers 280.

The one or more game servers 280 may be distributed servers of the cloud platform. That is, one or more game servers 280 may refer to the infrastructure services of the cloud service provided by the platform 100.

The resource controller 230 may select a game server from among the one or more game servers 280 to distribute the game based on the load balancing policy.

The resource controller 230 may interface the game logic of the game with one or more service components 120. Accordingly, a game service interworking with one or more service components 120 by the resource controller 230 may be provided.

The global queue server 240 may provide message exchange between the one or more game servers 280 and data exchange. For example, the global queue server 240 may provide a queue used for sending and receiving messages and exchanging data between one or more game servers 280.

Global lock server 250 may provide synchronization for shared data used between one or more game servers 280. [

When one or more game servers 280 distributed on the network share data, the integrity of the data may be compromised in the process of one or more game servers 280 reading and writing the shared data . The global lock server 250 may provide a method of synchronizing and accessing the shared data to one or more game servers 280. [

The billing server 260 can measure the amount of the computation resources 110 that the user has used through the resource controller 230 and can determine the billing for the user according to the amount of computation resources used.

Also, the charging server 260 may provide a user authentication function.

The test server 270 may provide the user with debugging and testing on the platform 100.

In addition, the test server 270 may provide a diagnostic function for a problem when a failure occurs in the computer resource 110 used by the user.

3 is a flowchart of a method of providing a game service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The following steps 310 to 360 may correspond to a scenario in which a game creator uploads the created game to the platform 100 and provides a game service.

The game creator can upload data of the game to the platform 100 using the developer portal site.

In step 310, a service bus 210, which handles user connections, receives data of the game.

In step 320, the storage server 220 stores the data of the received game.

Next, the game creator can request the platform 100 to start the game service through the developer portal.

According to the request, in step 330, the service bus 210 receives a service start request of the game.

At step 340, the resource controller 230 distributes the game to one or more game servers 280 as a game service resource (or game domain resource).

At this time, the resource controller 230 can select a game server from among the one or more game servers 280 based on the load distribution policy.

Here, the game service resources may be actual game logic.

At step 350, the resource controller 230 may interface the game logic of the game with one or more service components 120. [

In step 360, the service bus 210 provides the game as a game service.

The technical contents according to one embodiment of the present invention described above with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 can be directly applied to this embodiment as well. Therefore, a more detailed description will be omitted below.

4 is a flow diagram of a method for providing a service component 120 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

The following steps 410 through 430 may correspond to scenarios in which the user uses the individual service component 120 provided by the platform 100. [

At step 410, the user is connected to the platform 100 via the service bus 210. That is, the service bus 210 establishes a connection between the user and the game service provided by the platform 100.

With the above connection, the user can use the internal service provided by the platform 100 via the service bus 210.

Also, with the above connection, the service bus 210 can provide the user with position transparency with respect to the computational resource 110 provided by the game service. The location transparency means that the user does not know the actual physical address (e.g., IP address or HTTP address) of the platform 100 service (e.g., repository service, global queue service, Can be used.

That is, through relaying the service bus 210, the user can use other services of the platform 100 only by knowing the physical address of the service bus 210.

At step 420, the service bus 210 provides the computational resource 110 to the user via the connection.

Step 420 may include the following steps 1) through 4), depending on the computational resources 110 provided to the user.

1) providing the user with the reading and writing of data related to the game service via the service bus 210; The data may be written into the storage server 220 or read from the storage server 220.

2) the global queue server 240 provides the user with message transmission and reception and data exchange between one or more servers 280 via the service bus 210

3) global lock server 250 provides the user with shared data synchronization between one or more servers 280 via service bus 210

4) providing test server 270 with debugging and testing for the game running on platform 100 via service bus 210 to the user

In step 430, the billing server 260 can measure the amount of computer resources used by the user and determine the billing based on the amount of computer resources used.

The user can pay for the computational resource 110 as much as he or she has used the determined charge.

The technical contents according to one embodiment of the present invention described above with reference to Figs. 1 to 3 can be applied to this embodiment as it is. Therefore, a more detailed description will be omitted below.

The method according to an embodiment of the present invention can be implemented in the form of a program command which can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

100: Game service platform
110: Computational resources
210: Service bus
220: Storage server
230: resource controller

Claims (15)

A service bus for processing a user's access to receive a service for a game;
A storage server for storing data of the game received via the service bus; And
(1) a plurality of different game domain resources, each of which is specialized for each of the plurality of games and specific to the type of game, and (2) a game platform resource abstracted from the service bus and the storage server A resource controller for distributing and allocating the game server to a plurality of game servers and allocating a specific game server corresponding to the uploaded game among the plurality of game servers,
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The uploaded game is served through the assigned game server and the service bus,
Wherein the resource controller interlocks the game logic of the uploaded game with the service bus and the repository server. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the resource controller selects the game server to distribute the game among the plurality of game servers based on a load distribution policy. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the service bus provides location transparency to the user for back-end services provided by the game service platform. The method according to claim 1,
A global queue server for providing message transmission / reception and data exchange between the plurality of game servers;
The game service platform. The method according to claim 1,
A global lock server providing synchronization for shared data used between the plurality of game servers;
The game service platform. The method according to claim 1,
A billing server for measuring the amount of the computational resources used by the user and determining the billing based on the amount of the computational resources used;
The game service platform. The method according to claim 1,
A test server providing debugging and testing on the game service platform to the user;
The game service platform. Receiving a data of a game by a service bus that handles user connections;
(1) a plurality of different game domain resources specific to a plurality of games, each of which is specialized for a type of game; and (2) And a game platform resource that abstracts the storage server, and is distributed and allocated to a plurality of game servers;
The service bus receiving a service start request of the game;
Distributing the game to a game server as a game service resource including the game domain resource and the game platform resource; And
The game server providing the game as a game service through the service bus
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Wherein the resource controller interlocks the game logic of the game with the service bus and the storage server. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the resource controller selects a game server to distribute the game among the plurality of game servers based on a load distribution policy. delete delete Establishing a connection between the user and the game service by the service bus;
(1) providing a computer resource to the user through the connection, the computer resource used by the game being provided by a resource controller included in the game service platform; (1) (2) a game platform resource abstracted from the service bus and a storage server storing data of the received game, is distributed and allocated to a plurality of game servers, and the plurality A specific game server corresponding to an uploaded game among the game servers is allocated, and a game uploaded through the allocated game server is served; And
The charging server measures the amount of the computer resources used by the user and determines the charging based on the amount of the computer resources used
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Wherein the resource controller interlocks the game logic of the uploaded game with the service bus and the storage server. 13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the service bus provides the user with location transparency with respect to the computational resources provided by the game service through the connection. 13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the step of providing the computational resources comprises:
The service bus providing the user with reading and writing of data associated with the game service
The method comprising the steps of: A computer-readable recording medium embodying a program for carrying out the method for providing a game service according to any one of claims 8, 9, 12,

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