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-Generic Game Server
+Reliable Generic Game Server
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-The introduction aims to give the reader a good base to stand on when taking
+The reliable generic game server, hereafter known as GGS, is a computer
- on the rest of this thesis.
+ program designed to 
- A background and motivation of why this topic is interesting is given,
+\emph on
- and some basic terminoligy is defined and explained.
+host
- To understand many of the core issues in the GGS, some prior knowledge
+\emph default
- of other topics is needed, the introduction aims to give this prior knowledge.
+ network games on one or more server computers.
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+ Hosting, in a network software setting, means allowing client software
-
+ connect to the server software, for the purpose of utilizing services provided
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+ by the server.
-We draw some parallels to existing solutions which solve similar problems
+ The GGS software provides games as a service, and the clients connecting
- in different sectors.
+ to the GGS can play these games on the GGS.
- The main challenges of the project are outlined, with the solutions thereof
- following later on in the paper.
- Some boundaries are placed on the project, since it is not possible to
- cover everything at once.
- By placing these boundaries, the purpose of the GGS is further refined.
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+The idea of game servers is not new, network games have been played for
+ decades.
+ Early, popular examples of network games include the 
+\emph on
+Quake
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+ series, or the 
+\emph on
+Doom
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-Also cover the final topics; method (development process, etc).
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- As of this eriting, the contents of method are unknown.
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+Come up w/ better game
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+ games.
+ Newer examples of network games include 
+\emph on
+World of Warcraft
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+, and 
+\emph on
+Counter-Strike
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+.
+ The difference between the GGS and the servers for these games is that
+ the servers for Doom, Quake, and the others listed, were designed with
+ these specific games in mind.
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+What GGS does is to provide a 
+\emph on
+generic
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+ framework for developing network games.
+ The framework is generic in the sense that it is not bound to a specific
+ game.
+ There are many different types of games, some are inheritly more time sensitive
+ than others, strategy games are examples of games which are not very sensitive
+ to time delays, first-person shooters however, can be very sensitive.
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+The generic nature of the GGS allows the creation of many different types
+ of games, the motivation behind this is to remove the neccessity of writing
+ new game servers when developing new games.
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+The GGS is in addition to being generic, also 
+\emph on
+reliable
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+ in the sense that the gaming service provided is consistant and available.
+ A consistant and available server is a server that handles hardware failiures
+ and software failiures gracefully.
+ In the event of a component breaking within the GGS, the error is handled
+ by fault recovery processes, thereby creating a more reliable system.
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 Purpose
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+The purpose of the GGS project.
+ What is the purpose of creating a fault tolerant server, why is it generic,
+ and what good does it do to have a scalable system? In the background,
+ we should give the motivations behind creating this software, but here
+ we should outline why the software is needed.
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 The purpose of the GGS project is to create a 
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