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PAST Prototype Walkthrough
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08/07/07 17:14
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PAST Prototype Walkthrough
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=15175649----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally captured 1 gig of video and managed to reduce it to 100MB in a WMV with no sound. You should still be able to read the text though what is said doesn't really matter except to prove that the Local, Global, and IM chat work. There is no sound to this video and it was done in pseudo-WAN conditions (out of the office but only one hop). When we capture multiple hop video, we will post it to show that it responds exactly as you see. Here are some screenshos from the video so you can see what it really looks like.  ---- ----  ---- ---- 
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Re: PAST Prototype Walkthrough
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08/08/07 02:53
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I was wondering why you split your server and client code like so?
It is actually a lot easier to do it this way. You don't have to worry about IFDEFS or that your client code is "leaking" into your server code.
You can have one person work on the server code and another on the client code and they won't step on each others shoes. Furthermore, I have serveral distinct client-server applications running serverside managing my world. If I had to try and syncrhonize the code across so many applications every day, I'd go nuts! Especially if it was because I'm changing something clientside that has no relevance serverside.
When updating server code, you don't need to update the client code and vice versa. When it comes time for patching, I only want to use bandwidth for things that the client needs and not because the server changed. Remember that you pay for the bandwidth and thus uploading the server code could mean a 10 to 100 percent larger file size and you are paying for each byte.
But the most important reason is what you mention: security. The thought of actually releasing my server code to the world, even if it is in WRS, makes me cringe! It is, if you will, like sending a blueprint of your HQ encoded in every bullet you fire at the enemy! It's just asking for trouble! The minute the WRS is decompiled or you make a mistake and it compiles wrong or whatever, your server is critically exposed.
I have been saying this for years but nobody really trusts: separating your client and server code is THE way to go for real MP and MMP programming. It's easier to manage, to work with, and more secure to deploy than the Conitec way of mixing it up. 
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Re: PAST Prototype Walkthrough
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08/08/07 13:35
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Very cool technology. Great work.
I watched the video and I did not really understand how this technology was going to help teach Physic's to the intended audience of students...
Maybe I am a little slow....
Anyways, keep your eye on the prize of creating an innovative Physic's teaching tool, and do not get caught up to much, in the details of an MMO, at least when you are trying to sell this prospective funders or users...
Great work, I look forward to seeing how you can convey Physic's lessons using this tool....
Ken
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Re: PAST Prototype Walkthrough
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08/08/07 17:27
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The pedagogy is not in place in the Video, Nard. We are still in the systems construction phase. I have recently changed my pitch to best reflect this. I used to say I'm making an MMOG to teach physics. That's a nice elevator pitch statement and I still use it. A more accurate statement would be that I'm making a fully physical Virtual World and using game-like elements to promote the pedagogy... as you can see, it's easier to say "educational physics MMOG".  In truth, i can see my world being used purely as a sandbox, as a lab, with no game. That would be fine and useful. But putting a game is a easy way to motivate students who wouldn't do a lab to try and learn physics.
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Re: PAST Prototype Walkthrough
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08/08/07 22:15
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I put the obfuscator on my page, if you have troubles to download it from gstools.de http://www.wasteland.at/GSTObfuscator.zip (you require the GST Builder also to operate it) Remember, that the obfuscator alters the name of variables, so you might have to think about the server-client code "syncronization" then, if the variable/function names are renamed. (since your "split" code is a special case) The obfuscator works well, there are just a few problems in some special cases (dont write "%i" but "% i" for a modulo for example)
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