Networked Games

Jian Huang --- Fall, 2009

Lecture Notes

• Overview - our killer app
• Fundamentals of Game Design
• Time-Box
• Design Patterns
• CVS - version control
• Modeling the World: Geometry and Texture
• Game Engine
• Ogre Design Overview
• Graph Theory for Designers
• Object Sharing
• Ogre Scene Management
• C++ Part 1, Recap
• C++ Part 2, Exception Handling, STL, etc.
• Dynamic Object Sharing
• Automated Testing
• The Command Pattern
• AI for Networked Games , Guest Lecture by Dr. Parker
• Time and Event Synchronization
• Metrics
• Scalability and Performance, architectural design
• OGRE Materials
• Forward and Inverse Kinematics
• Ogre Render Targets and Animation
• Server Cluster Architecture and Distributed Services
• Scalability and Performance, a view of resource management
• Ogre Resource Management
• No Cheating (Anti-Cheat)