1. Presented by :-
Mistry Chetna and Shukla Nirlep

2. Meaning of Multiplayer Online Gaming
 A multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which can be
played via a game server over the Internet, with other players around the world.
 Online Game is a technology or a mechanism for connecting players together
rather than a particular pattern of gameplay.
 Online games are played over some form of computer network, typically on the
Internet.
 Playing Online Games is increasing popularity especially among the young
generation because of the advantages that it offers.

3. Examples of Online Games :-

4. Advantages of online games:
 Online games is the ability to connect to multiplayer games, although single-
player online games are quite common as well.
 Online games is that a great percentage of games don’t require payment.
 Online games is worth nothing is the availability of wide variety of games for all
type of game players.

5.  Online multiplayer gaming attracts millions of gamers around the world that share a
common experience by playing together on a virtual environment that extends beyond
the boundaries of a normal LAN.
 Online games support hundreds of players in the same session and this made
possible by the specific architecture used to forward interactions that is based on game
log processing .
 Players update the game server, hosting the game session and the server integrates
all the updates into a log that is made available to all the players through the TCP
protocol.
 The client software used for the game connects to the log port and by reading the
log updates ,the local user can interface with actions of other players.

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 The processing of game logs is a potentially compute intensive operation that
strongly depends on the number of players online and the number of games
monitored.
 Gaming portals are web applications and therefore might suffer from the spiky
behavior of users that can randomly generate large amount of volatile workloads
that do not justify capacity planning.
 The use of Cloud Computing technology can provide the required elasticity for
seamlessly processing these workloads and scale as required when the number
of users increases.
 A prototypal implementation of Cloud-based game log processing has been
implemented by Titan Inc.(now Xfire)- a company based in california that extended
its gaming portal to offload game log processing to the cloud by using Aneka.

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 The prototype has utilized a private cloud deployment that has allowed Titan
Inc. to process concurrently multiple logs and sustain a larger number of users.

9. Disadvantages of Online Games:
 They even tell lies to their parents or play truant to have more time in the
internet shops.
 Time consuming
 Expensive
 Lack of communication and family interaction.
 Some games can be aggressive and violent.