If you're an online game developer, you may have heard that Sun is open sourcing Project Darkstar -- an enterprise grade, highly scalable, online game server entirely written in Java. This is big news for online game developers, MMORPG developers in particular. And NCsoft, the company behind "City of Heroes" and "Guild Wars" is already prototyping new games on the Darkstar platform.
In a nutshell, Project Darkstar is a game agnostic platform that allows developers to quickly develop online games in any genre and target a wide variety of devices. It provides developers with a simple programming model -- with plug-in APIs to facilitate expansion and integration with third-party components. The platform also enables games to handle large numbers of clients, while providing low-latency response times. It automatically handles persistence of game state and recovery of game state in the event of server failure. And It makes "shardless" MMOGs a reality by removing the need to preallocate servers with fixed assignments to specific game regions. One last thing about the Darkstar platform is that it can be reused from one game to another...
If you'd like to learn more, check out www.projectdarkstar.com.
And if you're an online game developer, visit the above website and sign up for the Darkstar Playground. Sun is offering access to server resources to help you start developing your online games. If you qualify, you will be able to quickly test your game ideas and implement online games without the worry of building a dedicated server room.
The Darkstar Playground will be available in mid-2007, so sign up today!
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