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Statistics
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Future improvements
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The specification of the GGS prototype is huge and like many other software
projects relying on outside technologies, in time it would require a lot
of maintanance.
Therefore there are a lot of areas in which the GGS could be improved such
as performance, compatibility, ease of setup and usage.
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Performance
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Because of TCP being a connection oriented protocol, it isn't suited for
all types of game data transfers.
Each transmission will consume more network bandwith than connectionless
protocols like UDP and cause uneccessary load on the processor.
Therefore support for UDP would mean that more games could be run simultaneousl
y on the GGS.
Another advantage of UDP is latency being reduced.
Without having to setup a connection for each group packets of data being
sent, they will be sent instantly and therefore arrive earlier.
Latency is of highest importance in realtime games as it improves realism
and fairness in gameplay and many game developers requires the freedom
to take care of safety issues as packet losses themselves.
This concludes that UDP would be a benefit for GGS, game developers and
game players alike.
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Compatibility
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GGS relies on modern technologies.
This includes the virtual machines(vm) that the GGS uses for communication
between Erlang and the GDL:s.
These specific vm:s are crucial for game developers to be able to write
games in other languages than Erlang.
Therefore it would be best for the GGS to have as many of these vm:s implemente
d as possible.
The vm:s taken into consideration so far have been unstable or incomplete
and it is possible to search for more vm:s, testing them and intergrate
them into the GGS prototype.
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Setup
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The GGS prototype installation procedure requires different configuring
and building steps and thus it isn't in an acceptable release state.
An executable installation file for each supported platform would be optimal.
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5.3.4 Usage
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The GGS doesn't support many programming languages nor does it have a complete
documentation.
This needs to be taken care of in future versions.
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Conclusion
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