Game Design 3 - MMOs and Game Notation
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The document discusses serious games and game design, focusing on MMOs like World of Warcraft and Second Life. It highlights aspects such as the economic impact of 'gold farming' in WoW and the unique features of game interfaces, including XML and JavaScript-based modifications. Additionally, it addresses security concerns related to the use of XML-RPC in game scripting.
Game Design 3 - MMOs and Game Notation
- 1. Serious Games & Game Design Lecture 3 – MMOs & Notation Jay Crossler Senior Software Engineer
- 2. Unforeseen artifacts in complex systems It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
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- 6. World of Warcraft World of Warcraft 4 Million world-wide players It takes approximately 240 hours of play time to make highest level People buy WoW gold on eBay - $20 can help you save 40 hours of work “ Chinese gold farmers” Villagers in China are working out of internet cafes… doing the boring, repetitive work and selling the profits for $5/day One farm-leader made $120k in the last year
- 7. World of Warcraft Extensible User Interface XML/Javascript based “mods” Allows links to external DBs Thottbott, Auctioneer, etc. Plague runs Amok One “instance” has a monster that gives you a blood plague Kills in a minute A line of players ran it back to a city, thousands infected Game masters had to quarantine entire cities
- 8. Case Study: Second Life Some people actually make their income on SL
- 9. Second Life Not quite a game, more a programmable VR platform
- 10. Second Life Scripting http://secondlife.com/badgeo
- 11. Object Scripting in SL
- 12. XML-RPC in game objects You can attach an XML-RPC listener to an object It will wait for requests from the outside world, and respond
- 13. XML-RPC in game, cont. Why not have objects initiate XML-RPC calls? This would be a denial-of-service mechanism… that would ultimately cause the SL site to be blocked
- 14. The XML-RPC Call
- 16. Calling XML-RPC from ASP Active Server Pages is an easy-to-use server-side scripting language that works natively on IIS
- 17. Calling XML-RPC from Java
- 18. Calling XML-RPC from PHP
- 19. Beware! If you’re online, you’re not safe. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =5H8hNXWgOoE Page
- 20. Game Notations