Taikodom
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Taikodom is a computer game by Brazilian developer Hoplon Infotainment. Considered by the developers to be a Massive Social Game rather than MMORPG
, Taikodom features a persistent
online outer space environment.
In 2007, an English version of the beta was released.
Hoplon hosts the commercial version on an IBM zSeries (specifically the z9, then later upgrade to a z10) mainframe
(also called the "gameframe" because it is linked to bladeservers with Cell processors) running Linux
(Source: IEEE Spectrum Magazine, August 2008 issue).
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
, Taikodom features a persistent
Persistent world
A persistent world is a virtual world that continues to exist even after a user exits the world and that user-made changes to its state are, to some extent, permanent...
online outer space environment.
In 2007, an English version of the beta was released.
Hoplon hosts the commercial version on an IBM zSeries (specifically the z9, then later upgrade to a z10) mainframe
Mainframe computer
Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...
(also called the "gameframe" because it is linked to bladeservers with Cell processors) running Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
(Source: IEEE Spectrum Magazine, August 2008 issue).