Patent attributes
A cloud gaming system includes a messaging bus and a plurality of servers that are interconnected via the messaging bus and communicatively coupled to one or more client devices. Each server executes a game simulation instance for each of one or more players associated with one of the client devices. Each game simulation instance associated with a player within a specified region of a game world communicates player input by the player to one or more other game simulation instances via an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network formed between multiple game simulation instances associated with players within the specified region. Each game simulation instance associated with a player within the specified region also calculates a current state for the player based on the player inputs received via the ad-hoc peer-to-peer network.