Systems and Methods for Tick-Less UDP Game Traffic

A computer-implemented method of communicating game state data used to render three-dimensional objects within a virtual scene, the method comprising:

• providing, by a game server, one or more velocity profiles associated with an object for downloading by one or more client computer systems;
• publishing, by the game server, game state data at a first time for use by the one or more client computer systems to render a virtual scene within an online game, wherein the game state data includes at least coordinate data for the object at the first time and velocity data for the object at the first time;
• and
• determining, by the game server, that movement of the object has not changed at a second time corresponding to a scheduled publication of updated game state data, wherein the game server is configured to not include coordinate data for the object at the second time or velocity data for the object at the second time in the updated game state data responsive to the determination that the movement of the object has not changed since the first time, wherein coordinates and a velocity of the object at the second time are instead determined at the one or more client computer systems based on the one or more velocity profiles, the coordinate data for the object at the first time, and the velocity data for the object at the first time.