Announcement

About CS4344

• Who: Ooi Wei Tsang (ooiwt)
• Where: AS6/211
• When: Mon 0900-1200
• Workload: Lecture (2hr) Preparation (2hr) Homework (6hr) per week
• CA: Open Book Exam (35%) Assignments (45%) Quizzes (20%)
• 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 systems, operating systems, security and cryptography, networking and embedded systems. In particular, issues such as game server architectures (mirrored, centralised, peer-to-peer etc.), consistency management (bucket synchronisation, dead reckoning etc.), interest management, scalability to large number of clients, cheat prevention and detection, and power management will be discussed.

Tentative Schedule

1. 11 August: Introduction
2. 18 August: Maintaining Consistency (C/S)
3. 25 August: Dead Reckoning and LPF (C/S)
4. 01 September: Interest Management (C/S)
5. 08 September: Maintaining Consistency (P2P) + Quiz 1
6. 15 September: Interest Management (P2P) + Assignment 1 Due
7. 22 September: Midterm Break (no class)
8. 29 September: DHT and Games (P2P)
9. 06 October: Hybrid Architectures + Quiz 2 + Assignment 2 Due
10. 13 October: Player movements and implications
11. 20 October: Game traffic and implications
12. 27 October: Deepavali (no class)
13. 03 November: Mobile gaming + Quiz 3 + Assignment 3 Due

Reference Books

Related Courses (Elsewhere)

• COMP 521 Modern Computer Games at McGill University
• CS679 Computer Game Technology at University of Wisconsin
• TKO 5725 Multiplayer Computer Games at University of Turku, Finland.