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Csc506 Week 1 Case Study Of Online Match Making

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Abstract – This case study will cover the CSC8506 group project and the networking that has been implemented in this project. More specifically on the world view that is created for each client via the networking constraints. This paper will particularly be looking at the networking techniques that have been employed, and how they resolve problems of world view. World view is the state that the world is in, and for optimal gameplay, all clients should have the same world view. I. INTRODUCTION Online multiplayer games which run at real-time encapsulate the majority of gaming to-day. With most games on PC and console having competitive matchmaking, and co-operative gameplay. Both cases will involve players interacting with the world. These so …show more content…

The reason C2S is still used even with this obvious prob-lem is that data packets are distributed fairly to all clients. Anything less than completely fair is unacceptable in the gaming world, and will definitely be picked up on by players of the game. Having implemented C2S in the project, play-ers can paint either red or blue on the floor depending which team they are on. The cli-ent paints the floor and is complete control of the ball, basically the game would run without the need for a server if there was only one player. So we see that server doesn’t change anything that the client has done, it simply acknowledges what a specific client has done, and informs all other clients on its actions, via altering the world view, this is all kept in check with the use of a synchro-nised clock, which helps with dead reckoning [4], the collisions between players. So to sum up, C2S allows for the same world view to be sent to every client, along with the same score being sent to every client, so all players will be running a consistent …show more content…

The games playabil-ity increases dramatically. With the use of Pub Sub, players don’t have to wait for a full lobby being able to dive into the game. This also increases how fun the game is, if you want to play the game you can, no need to wait. Accurate scoring allows for a more consistent and enjoyable game, along with the fact that you don’t even need a full lobby as AIs can take the place of humans to keep the game going. World view is a very important aspect to gaming, and that is something that has been sorted out cleanly within the project. VIII. CONCLUSION The use of C2S with a Pub Sub internal net-work has made it easily accessible to have 8 players across a network inside one game. World view is consistent due to a synchro-nised clock and information sent between brokers. These brokers manage to dissemi-nate the information among all the clients and the server correctly and adequately so the game maintains a valid consistency. Again, the synchronised clock combats an age old problem in networking, namely latency. The game is updated with knowledge of when the updates happened, this step allow-ing us to side step the delay in sending pack-ets, no matter how

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