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Microsoft Research Project Waterloo

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The Research Games team in Microsoft Research, of which I'm a member, has just published its first game, Project Waterloo (or, to give it it's full, if somewhat verbose, name, Microsoft Research Project Waterloo).

This is an example of a Colonel Blotto style game, one of many economic games we want to investigate. Placing it on Facebook, we want to explore the game in a non-lab environment, and to see how well such a game spreads on social networks.

For those who are interested, the client side of the game is pretty much entirely CSS and JavaScript (what else could it be?!) and the server is running an ASP.NET MVC 3 application (hosted on Azure) with a SQL Azure database back end. Maybe I'll describe the implementation in a future blog post or two...

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  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
    I'll be waiting for the implementation :)

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
    Right now, the game page shows an error: "System.Exception: SecureCanvasUrl is null or empty"!

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
    It's not working for me =

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2011
    It doesn't work. I am using IE9 with https turned on in Facebook.

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2011
    Sorry about the missing secure canvas error - my mistake, and it's been corrected now.