Online Educational Game of Snakes and Ladders

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Online Educational Game of Snakes and Ladders

• -Shalini Pradhan
• -Manali Joshi
• -Uttara Paingankar
• -Seema Joshi

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Introduction

• Computer mediated learning has gained a lot
  of popularity in the past decade. Learning is
  enhanced if this process is coupled with games.
• Interactive multiplayer games act as an excellent
  learning tool.
• The multi-player games have imposed a requirement
  on the Internet to support low-latency real-time
  interactions.
• It is essential that all the users / players get
  the same view in multi-user online games.

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Objectives

• Design of an multiplayer interactive game
• Incorporating learning aspects in the game as a
  way of interaction
• Make the system distributed over a network
• Achieve a degree of fairness in the game
• Scalability
• Interoperability

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Related Work

• Caching and Replication techniques to handle
  network heterogeneity.
• The protocols proposed to handle consistency
  problems in distributed applications can help in
  dealing with heterogeneous clients.
• Use of Java technology for simulating real time
  synchronous collaborative systems like multi-user
  games.
• Use of replicated architectures for synchronous
  collaborative multi-user systems since they
  require low bandwidth and transfer minimal state
  information.

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Related Work (contd.)

• Implementation of online games as virtual reality
  games where clients can see themselves within the
  game environment.
• Dealing with security, synchronization and
  fairness issues in these systems.
• Implementation of a multiple-server model to
  handle huge loads of data. Issues like monitoring
  of resources are dealt with.
• Load balancing issues for dynamic change of
  workload in network games. Load-balancing
  algorithms have been proposed.

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Proposed Solution
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System Architecture
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Technical Architecture
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Technology and Tools

• Programming Language Java (J Creator)
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture
  (CORBA) For communication between the
  application and the server CORBA is used.
• Database MS Access
• JDBC ODBC for database connectivity
• Environment JDK 1.3
• Client side web-interface Active Server Pages

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Why CORBA?

• Interoperability
• Scalability
• Heterogeneity
• CORBA Services

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Flow Diagram
User

• No
• Yes

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Flow Diagram contd
Game Page
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What we learnt ??????

• Software Development Lifecycle
• Good Software Designing Skills
• Code Modularity
• Communication on CORBA
• Threads in CORBA Identification not available
  in CORBA 2.3
• JAVA AWT
• ASP

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Future Work

• Extend the game to support more users per game
  session
• Extend the game to support more game sessions
• Incorporate levels of difficulty in the game
• Incorporate this game into a bigger framework of
  many other games
• Can be enhanced to support a variety of knowledge
  databases
• Users can assess their performances (Reports /
  Graphs)

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DEMONSTRATION
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ScreenshotsLogin Page
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ScreenshotsAuthentication Page
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ScreenshotsUser Registration Page
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ScreenshotsWelcome Page
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ScreenshotsUser Profile Maintenance Page
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ScreenshotsError Message Screens
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ScreenshotsGame Page
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Screenshots