Introductions & Overview
What special challenges do programmers of large-scale gaming worlds face?
•Creating systems and programs that scale gracefully (e.g. ease of adding new content, and infrastructure)
•Handling flash crowds (large amount of players in an area)
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•Syncing clients and server over the internet (dead reckoning, smoothing)
•Security
•Load balancing (Server)
• Backend support  (Tools…Tools…Tools)
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•Database management (managing character and world data)
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