Darkstar: The Java Game Server
The Java Game Server
1st Edition
Published on 30. August 2007
77 pages
978-0-596-51484-6 (ISBN)
Description
So, you have a great idea for the next big multiplayer game. Maybe it's a virtual world based on your favorite sci-fi television show. Or maybe it's an online bowling league for you and your friends. Regardless, the challenge of building a networked multiplayer computer game goes far beyond having a great idea. It can be so significant that it prevents great games from becoming reality.Darkstar breaks down this barrier of complexity. It provides an easy-to-use library of functions that handles the challenging aspects of networked game development for you. Further, it provides a robust, industrial-strength server that can scale with your game as it grows in popularity. With Darkstar, you can quickly turn your idea for a multiplayer game into a (virtual) reality.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-596-51484-6 (9780596514846)
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Multiplayer Games
- The Architecture of Multiplayer Games
- An Application Server for Games
- The Darkstar Game Server
- Your First Game
- Clients and Client Communication
- Server-Side Client Handling
- Client-Side implementation
- ServerSessionListener
- ServerSession
- SimpleClient
- Client-Server Authentication
- Sending Objects
- Managing Game State with Persistent Objects
- The DataManager and ManagedObjects
- ManagedReferences
- The Challenge of Concurrency
- Generating Action with Tasks
- Creating and Running Tasks
- Periodic Tasks
- Tasks and Server Performance
- Task Exceptions and Retry
- Efficient Client-Client Communication Through Channels
- Creating Channels
- Managing Channel Participants
- Channel Communication
- Space Game!
- Game State
- Game Server
- Game Client
- Serialization
