Project WGMud Garfield Freeman David Hakanson Josh Jost Eli Stevens Joan Qiong Wang Mentor: Dr. Palaniappan

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Project WGMudGarfield FreemanDavid
HakansonJosh JostEli StevensJoan Qiong
WangMentor Dr. Palaniappan

• I am Jack's massively multi-player online game.
  Without me, Jack would beunable to leverage his
  obsessive knowledge of Tolkien and Dungeons
  andDragons into attention and admiration from
  female-presenting players.

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Project Background

• First MMORPG Ultima Online, 1997
• Followed by Everquest, Asherons Call, World War
  II Online, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot
• More coming soon

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More Background

• Multiplayer online fantasy games are not new
• First was MUD 1, in 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and
  Richard Bartle
• Currently 1665 muds listed on the Mud Connector
  (www.mudconnector.com)
• Many clones

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Text Based Muds

• Lower dev costs
• Content is cheaper
• Everyone has a client

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Web Interface Solution

• We are using PHP

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Client Solution

• The provided client will be in Java
• However, any telnet client will be usable

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Core Server

• The Server will be written in C
• Will make heavy use of templates, STL

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Testing

• We will be using a lot of beta testing
• User feedback will be very important to balance
  the game and fix bugs
• DAoC used very similar methods

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Scheduling
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Thank God Its Over

• Now give us high scores