Console Game Machine Based Online Game System

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Console Game Machine Based Online Game System

• 2003.10.27
• Taeho kim
• thkim_at_cosmos.kaist.ac.kr

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Introduction

• Sony PlayStation2
• SoCom, FFXI (user 300,000), everquest
• Sports, MMORPG
• MS XBOX
• True fantansy live online
• FPS, action
• Nintendo GameCube

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Comparision consoles machines
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Issues On Console Online Game System(1/4)

• Online game with heterogenous consoles or PCs
• - why important
• heterogenous components in a system
• same game on different platforms
• - approach
• Providing Interface to each machine
• input mapping, message mapping,
  synchronization

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Issues On Console Online Game System(2/4)

• Security and Protection
• - Why important
• malicious components in a system
• Not easy to patch against virus, worms and
  hackings
• - Approach
• Attaching security and protection modules to
  machine

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Issues On Console Online Game System(3/4)

• Communication method among online gamers
• - Why important
• console have no character device while computer
  have a keyboard
• - Approach
• voice
• eye-toy (cam)
• keyboard

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Issues On Console Online Game System(4/4)

• of user scalability in a game
• - Why important
• Each components have different scaling rate
• MMORPG (massive multi-players online RPG)
• - Approach
• If user grows from hundreds-degree to
  ten-thousands degree, how to construct systems
• Looking into same scaling computer online game
  system

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References

• x-box hacking book An Introduction to Reverse
  Engineering
• Keeping Secrets in Hardware The Microsoft XboxTM
  Case Study