Virtual World

Jeff Israelian and David Markle

ABC 1998-1999
GTH-9811

Co-Advised with: Professor George Heineman

Abstract

Using Java 1.2, we successfully created a virtual environment in which multiple users could simultaneously manipulate characters upon a two-dimensional world-map which contained a variety of terrain types and items, through a client-server connection, via the TCP protocol. One of the most exciting features of our world was the inclusion of "agents", or non-human characters that could be programmed by non-system users with an adequate knowledge of Java, to perform an open-ended variety of tasks.

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