1. Project Darkstar Ahmed Mohamed Saeed Sun Campus Ambassador [email_address]

2. Project Darkstar In Detail What is Project Darkstar? Agenda What To Do/Where To Go Demonstrations Starting your online game

3. What is Project Darkstar? “ Project Darkstar is a software infrastructure that simplifies the development of game servers that take full advantage of today's multi-core processors, delivering a new generation of scalability to online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. Project Darkstar was created by Sun Microsystems Laboratories, is freely available to all, and is today advanced as an open source project by the Project Darkstar community.”

5. Coordinating player communications and interactions

6. Interfacing with billing and transaction systems

8. Large game datacenters may utilize thousands of servers

10. maintain most game state in memory

13. or, based on proprietary technology

17. Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network Project Darkstar: A Developer's View Project Darkstar Core Services DataManager TaskManager ChannelManager AppContext ChannelListener ClientSessionListener AppListener

18. Project Darkstar: Under the Covers Channel Service Session Service Watchdog Service Node Mapping Service Transaction Coordinator Scheduler Identity Coordinator Profiling Configuration Project Darkstar Core Services DataManager TaskManager ChannelManager AppContext ChannelListener ClientSessionListener AppListener

20. Supports connections from clients regardless of language client is written in or OS that client runs on

21. Java server runs on any OS

23. Source code accessibility

24. Rich community support

26. Proven commitment to and support for open source

28. Multi-threaded

29. Fault tolerant

31. Project Snowman Example Game Reference: https://project-snowman.dev.java.net/

32. Project Wonderland Video Reference: https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/

34. Review dependencies (JDK6) and acquire the required libraries (Berkeley DB & Apache Mina)

35. Follow README instructions to install

36. Start Tutorials to develop a simple application and demonstrate client/server communication

37. Simple Installer (developed by students) and student course coming soon...

38. Solid community support through Forums

40. Leverage open source Project Snowman game to learn the craft

41. Focus on your game logic

42. Choose your client platform

45. Learn: Tutorials, technical articles, faq

46. Start: Developer resources, example applications

49. Join the community

50. Participate on the forums

51. Checkout the source code

52. Do Project Darkstar tutorials

53. Collaborate with your friends

54. Develop an online game

55. Enter the contest

56. Have fun! http://www.projectdarkstar.com Project Darkstar Get Ahead of the Curve

57. THANK YOU! Project Darkstar Ahmed Mohamed Saeed Sun Campus Ambassador [email_address]