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THUNDER TACTICS

Oana Ciocan Paul Nechifor Tiberiu Pasat

Master of Software Engineer, Year I Faculty of Computer Science, "Al.I.Cuza" University, Iași

a MMO turn-based strategy game

Create a strategy game that will combine two different types of game. A MMORPG game and a turn based game. MMORPG characteristics: Users take the role of a character in the game's world. In this world players can find: shops, safe places, mobs and other players. In order to enter in game users will have to register first, and then login. Players can fight with other players and/or mobs. TBS characteristics: Arena mode fights: When a fight starts players will be moved to an arena and each player has his turn.

Description

• World of Warcraft

State of the art

MMORPGs

• Lineage II

State of the art

MMORPGs

• MuOnline

State of the art

MMORPGs

... and of course list is long:

• Diablo
• Metin
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Guild Wars 2
• Dragon Quest X
• The Secret World
• Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising
• more on Wikipedia

State of the art

MMORPGs

• Heroes of Might and Magic

State of the art

TBSs

• King’s Bounty

State of the art

TBSs

... and again list is very long:

• X-COM: Enemy Unknown
• Warbarons
• Endless Space
• Total War series
• more on Wikipedia

State of the art

TBSs

Technologies used: WebGL

WebGL is a GPU-accelerated graphics library available on modern browsers without plugins. Quake III WebGL demo running at 60 FPS.

Technologies used: 3dsMax

Autodesk 3ds Max is a powerful, reliable, and accessible 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing package. It's also a favorite among character animators and game artists. 3ds Max offers:

• Ready-to-use, template-based character rigging systems
• A comprehensive polygon modeling, UV editing, and texture painting

toolset

• Extensible development environment with support for C++ and .NET
• Advanced hardware shader and dynamics capabilities, including NVIDIA

PhysX integration, viewport preview and rendering of HLSL, and normal map and light map generation

• A vast community of experienced artists and developers to support game

development

Technologies used: 3dsMax

In our project we used 3dsMax to create animations for our characters. Skeleton of a character

Technologies used: 3dsMax

All animations are made on skeleton. Each vertex from model will be deformed by a bone that has that vertex in range. Character model

Technologies used: 3dsMax

Skeleton attached to models

Technologies used: 3dsMax

Model deformed by skeleton on an attack position (skeleton is set to transparent)

Technologies used: L3DT & 3dsMax

The terrain of the world was generated using L3DT. Trees generated with a 3ds Max script.

Technologies used: other

• Three.js:

○ a cross-browser JavaScript library/API for browser computer graphics using WebGL (and other technologies)

• WebSocket:

○ full-duplex communication with a browser

• L3DT - Large Terrain Generator

○ for creating the game map

Main components

Server (Business logic of the game)

○ WebSocket server ○ Threaded player proxy (through WebSocket conn.) ○ Fight mediator ○ AI module ○ Database storage module ○ Chat

Client

○ Provides a 3D user interface for the game ○ Cross platform (runs in browser)

ECore diagram: server

BPMN diagram: Fight mediator

Aspects: Profiler

I use a ConcurrentHashMap to store for every thread a HashMap

• f all the methods it calls and the

statistics associated with the method. When the server exists the results are written to a HTML page.

Aspects: Profiler

I use a ConcurrentHashMap to store for every thread a HashMap

• f all the methods it calls and the

statistics associated with the method. When the server exists the results are written to a HTML page.

Aspects: the rest

• Message statistics
• SQL exception logger
• Chat message censor
• Message cache for common fight messages

DEMO

Questions?