Ultimate Super Cars: MV

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Ultimate Super Cars MV

• Presented by
• Rishi Parmar
• Michael Asavareungchai

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Game in nutshell

• Two players will play in a fierce competition to
  reach the finish line first in their Ultimate
  Super Car.
• Winning will not be easy, as the race track
  contains challenging turns and obstacles. Each
  car has oil slicks and turbo boosts which players
  can use to gain the upper hand in a race.
• Each Ultimate Super Car is customizable from the
  way it runs and handles, to the way it looks.
• Players can view their win/loss records and see
  how they compare to other racers.

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Notes Limitations

• No more than two racers.
• No single player mode.
• No off road driving.
• A racer can be so far ahead that the other racer
  is no longer in view.

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Start Screen

• Racers will start on opposite sides of the track.
• There will be a countdown to a green light, then
  the racers can start to accelerate.

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Obstacle

• This is a sample obstacle on the track that
  racers must avoid.
• If they collide with an obstacle, they will reset
  away from the obstacle.

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Turning

• This is what a turn on the track will look like.

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Crashing

• This is what a crash with another player looks
  like.
• Both racers will reset on opposite sides of the
  track.

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Oil Spill

• When a racer hits an oil spill, they will lose
  control of their car temporarily.

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Turbo Boosts

• Turbo boosts will increase the speed of a player
  temporarily.

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Help Screen

• A cell phone button is assigned to display the
  help screen.
• When it is pressed, the screen shows the help
  screen and nothing else until the button is
  pressed again.

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Model
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Tidbits

• Main Packets used for Transfer

• Clients get the roadmap at startup
• Including the roadblocks
• Server receives signals from the clients every
  100 ms
• Server sends update info to both clients every
  160 ms
• Bottomline Server stores state and takes care of
  all the computations clients control the car
  speed, steer, and oil leaks

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Implementation using Servlets and Midlets

• Server incorporated into the servlet
• Midlets call the server on a well known port
• Midlets gets assigned a port by the server

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Support Analysis

• Large LCD Screen
• 84 x 48 pixels
• But, bigger the better!
• Fast connection
• About 500 bytes may need to be transferred every
  10th of a second
• Need moderate to large memory
• Store the road map, which will become difficult
  with more obstacles
• A protocol to have 2-way communication between
  servlet and midlets

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Feasibility-1

• Screen Size
• New cellphones have large screens
• Fast connection
• current data transfer rates of 9.6 kbps to 14.4
  kbps are inadequate
• 2.5G technology with support for 56kbps to 144
  kbps would be sufficient.
• Memory
• 32KB should be enough
• Protocol
• Allow servlet to send update info to midlets
  every 160 ms (when the timer fires on servlet
  side)
• Allow midlets to send signals to servlet every
  100ms (when the timer fires on midlet side)

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Feasibility-2

• Poor Reception will remain a big problem
• If poor reception for less than 2 seconds, then
  retrieve state from the server
• The game (including the setup) must start over if
  no reception for over 2 seconds
• Security
• Tapping is easy
• But MIDP 2.0 has some security features available
• Tomcat breaks down
• The entire game must start over

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Anticipated users

• Ultimate Super Cars MV is accessible to people
  of all ages.
• People who take mass transit can pass the time by
  playing this game.
• The competitive nature of our game will keep
  aspiring Ultimate Super Car racers coming back
  for more.
• The customizability of the cars keeps the game
  fresh and allows players to personalize their car
  and the way they play.

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Life cycle/Support

• During the development phase, the only users will
  be the programmers
• Developers will also provide product support
• Developers will release the product on May 31st
• We will support the game until the end of June
• Afterwards, the company selling the game needs to
  find people for support
• As for the server side of our game, we will need
  someone to support it after the games release
• Make sure tomcat is running
• Install new server software as necessary
• Ensure server can handle all traffic needs