About

Who: Ooi Wei Tsang (ooiwt)
Where: COM1/213
When: Mon 1200-1400
Workload: Lecture (2hr) Preparation (2hr) Homework (6hr) per week
CA: Open Book Exam (35%) Assignments (35%) Project (30%)
Objective: This module aims at providing students with a deep understanding of various technical issues pertaining to the development of networked games and mobile games. Students will be exposed to concepts from distributed system, operating systems, security and cryptography, networking and embedded systems. In particular, issues such as game server architectures (mirrored, centralized, peer-to-peer etc.), consistency management (bucket synchronization, dead reckoning etc.), interest management, scalability to large number of clients, cheat prevention and detection, and power management will be discussed.

Week 1 (12 January): Introduction + Assignment 1 Released + Project Released
Week 2 (19 January): Lag
Week 3 (26 January): Prediction + Project Proposal Due
Week 4 (02 February): LPF + Bucket Synchronization + Assignment 2 Released
Week 5 (09 February): Multiplayer Game Design
Week 6 (16 February): Interest Management I
Midterm Break (23 February): No Class
Week 7 (2 March): Interest Management II + Assignment 2 Due + Project Checkpoint 1
Week 8 (9 March): Hybrid Architecture (eLearning Week)
Week 9 (16 March): Game Traffic + Transport Protocol for Games
Week 10 (23 March): Server Discovery and Matchmaking + Project Checkpoint 2
Week 11 (30 March): Guest Lecture + Power-Aware Gaming
Week 12 (6 April): Cloud Gaming + Assignment 3 Due
Week 13 (13 April): Project Presentation
Exam (29 April)

Networking and Online Games: Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer Internet Games
Grenville Armitage, Mark Claypool, Philip Branch
ISBN: 978-0-470-01857-6, Hardcover, 232 pages, June 2006
[NUS LINC]
Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games
Jouni Smed, Harri Hakonen
ISBN: 978-0-470-01812-5, Hardcover, 286 pages, July 2006
[NUS LINC]

CS4344