Keeping score.The U.S. Army's popular video game/recruiting tool "America's Army For the actual U.S. Army, see United States Army. America's Army (also known as AA or Army Game Project) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative " is getting an upgrade. Westlake Westlake, city (1990 pop. 27,018), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. as a city 1956. A growing city, its various manufactures include ink and plastics. Village-based Pragmatic Solutions launched a beta Web site that will track statistics for the multi-player online video game. Up until now, players relied on fan sites for stats and to keep track of players. Pragmatic took over the back-end (programming) back-end - Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. of the "America's Army" video game a year ago, maintaining the server and creating a stable framework for the more than 7 million players worldwide who interact in the military game. "We keep the game running on an ongoing basis," said Peter Jakal, owner of the 12-man Pragmatic Solutions. The new features will keep track of every player's score in the game and what missions he's he's 1. Contraction of he is: He's going to school today. 2. Contraction of he has: He's already been to the museum. completed. The program will fly country flags for each player, showing the worldwide reach of the game, which is available as a free download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. from the Army's Web site. Staff Reporter Hilary Potkewitz can be reached by e-mail at hpotkewitz@labusinessjournal.com or at (323) 549-5225, ext. 226. |
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