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    This document describes a trading game called Pirates where players discover and trade resources between islands. Players start with one farming island and ship, and can change island production types and trade food, wood, ships, and other goods. The game aims to keep the frontend and backend separated, give an intuitive interface, and use standard technologies. It uses AJAX for the frontend, with a backend engine and Postgres database. Players trade resources, upgrade ships, and aim to achieve higher ranks through more turns played. The developers discuss potential improvements like optimizing database access and making the interface more interactive.

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    Presentation for University project to implement a web trading game.

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    This document describes a trading game called Pirates where players discover and trade resources between islands. Players start with one farming island and ship, and can change island production types and trade food, wood, ships, and other goods. The game aims to keep the frontend and backend separated, give an intuitive interface, and use standard technologies. It uses AJAX for the frontend, with a backend engine and Postgres database. Players trade resources, upgrade ships, and aim to achieve higher ranks through more turns played. The developers discuss potential improvements like optimizing database access and making the interface more interactive.

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    Pirates - Presentation - 2004

    Uploaded by

    Dharmesh Malam
    This document describes a trading game called Pirates where players discover and trade resources between islands. Players start with one farming island and ship, and can change island production types and trade food, wood, ships, and other goods. The game aims to keep the frontend and backend separated, give an intuitive interface, and use standard technologies. It uses AJAX for the frontend, with a backend engine and Postgres database. Players trade resources, upgrade ships, and aim to achieve higher ranks through more turns played. The developers discuss potential improvements like optimizing database access and making the interface more interactive.

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    Trading Game

    Pirates

    Dharmesh Malam
    Chris Roebuck
    Rikin Shah
    Our Game
    • Based on pirates discovering islands and trading

    • Start off with one farming island and one ship


    – Can change production of islands, eg Ships, food, wood

    • Move ship to different islands


    – discovering unoccupied islands
    – Trading with other players

    • Players set the max to sell and price for their islands

    • Others can then buy up to that amount


    Our Game
    Specifics
    • Can trade in:
    – Food,
    – Silk
    – Jewellery
    – Wood
    – Spice
    • Three types of Island
    – Farming – makes food or spice
    – Industrial – makes ships or jewellery or silk
    – Lumber – makes wood or mines gold
    • Rank system
    – Higher rank by playing more turns
    – Need certain ranks to be able to produce more valuable items

    • Able to make bigger ships that can carry more goods


    Goals
    • To keep the front-end and backend cleanly
    separated

    • To give the user an intuitive interface

    • To use standard and portable technology

    • To keep the system modular and extensible


    Front End Architecture
    AJAX
    • Very Interactive
    • Very dynamic
    • No applets to load, so fast
    • No page refresh, all
    requests asynchronous
    • Fast once requests are
    cached,
    • Processing moved to client
    end, less load on server
    •Eg Google Maps
    Back End Architecture
    JSP
    XML XML
    Client page
    PirateEngine JDBC Postgres
    Java . Database
    . Servlet
    .
    . JDBC
    XML JSP
    Client XML
    page

    Internet

    •Database to store state


    •transactions, stored procedures, etc maintain consistency

    •Pirate Engine provides façade to all client requests


    •JSP page dynamically creates XML for the client to parse for each actio
    •Eg buy,move world info
    Improvements
    • System works well, satisfies goals set
    – Modular and extensible, clean separation of client server
    – Provides intuitive interface

    • Make more efficient


    – User connection pooling and caching on java access to
    database …

    • Make interface more interactive


    – More DHTML to make UI better …

    • Extend game
    – Add more maps, products …
    – Add more game elements, like capture ships …
    – etc
    Pirates Game

    Thank you
    for listening

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