Original author(s) | Sun Microsystems |
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Initial release | August 30, 2007 |
Stable release | 0.9.11
/ October 29, 2009 |
Written in | Java |
Platform | Java |
Type | MMOG middleware |
License | GPLv2, BSD |
Website | "Project Darkstar" at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-02-08) |
Project Darkstar is a discontinued open source framework for MMOG development, written in Java and deployed as game engine middleware. Project Darkstar began as a personal project of Jeff Kesselman in 1999, later becoming a research project at Sun Microsystems,[1] aimed to "help developers and operators avoid a range of serious, yet typical, problems associated with massive scale online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications today, including zone overloading, data corruption, and server underutilization."[2][3]