Designing your project

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Designing your project

• Materials take notes in class

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Mutli-player games

• 4 players connect to the server
• 4 clients and one server
• 4 clients see and interact with an interface for
  the game
• Server handles 4 clients requests and refreshes
  clients interfaces

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Knowns and Unknowns

• User Interface on the clients side
• Sockets for sending messages
• Issues
• How would you handle the game state?
• How would you handle the game rules?
• What does the interface look like?
• How fast would you need to refresh interface?
• Where are you storing the game rules and game
  state ?

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Design questions

• Fat vs. thin client
• Thin client no storage on the client side
• Fat client store game related data on the client
  instead of the server.
• Concurrent or iterative handling of requests on
  the server side

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Design Issues

• Stateful or stateless servers
• What happens when a server dies or when a client
  dies?
• Protocols TCP/IP or UDP/IP

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Past Experiences

• What are your experiences from IST 412?
• What other design questions do you need to
  address?

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Project Work

• Start working on the design
• We will come by approve/disapprove your projects
  (if it is something other than settlers of catan)