ASCS 2013 - 24th Asian School on Computer Science

This tutorial covers the concepts underlying networked games (NGs) and networked virtual environments (NVEs), from their definition, to distributed systems, to networking fundamentals, quality of experience and game design needs.
Topics include:
the challenges of networked games
the origins of networked games technology
communications architectures
managing dynamic shared state and game playability
systems design ? client server vs peer to peer
resource management for scalability and performance