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Please help [me make a game]
Asrael:
The kind of game i want to make it more or less a game with only a bacground story but you dont really do anything to follow it. You just lev. fight monsters and other players and try to be the best one. btw. i have been looking at "Video Game Design Pro". Anyone know if its any good and easy to use?
f0dder:
What he wants, I gather, isn't some client-based fancy-gfx engine, but some online mostly text-based game. Ie., a PHP or whatever job with some database diddley-doo. Can still take quite some time to develop, though...
Asrael:
correct f0dder.
Deozaan:
Text based with a few graphics? You mean like http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/ ?
All you'd really need to do is learn PHP, CSS, and XHTML, with some database like MySQL.
All of those things are free to download and learn, with decent manuals. For CSS and XHTML, check out the W3 consortium. PHP has a manual you can download from the website, as does MySQL. If the PHP/MySQL manuals aren't good enough, try buying a good PHP book from Amazon. MySQL is probably covered at least briefly, or some books cover both PHP and MySQL (as indicated by their title).
Download PHP and the manual: http://www.php.net/
World Wide Web (W3) Consortium: http://www.w3.org/ - Or more specifically, XHTML 1.1 - CSS 2.1 (I haven't made a web site in a while, so maybe CSS 3 and XHTML 2 are the common standards now. I'm not sure)
And MySQL: http://mysql.org/
Or get it all in one package with a server and everything so you can test it all on your computer with something like XAMPP
tinjaw:
I suggest you take a good look at Byond.
It is not text-based, but you might want to take a look at RPG Maker XP. It is $60 USD, but it is a complete solution - you wouldn't need anything else.
If you want to do something like Fallout, then take a look at FIFE. It is still in development, but is open source. I am not sure how difficult it is to use.
Another option all together, that you may wish to pursue is to do a MOD. You can use Diablo, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights or many others.
There is also a pretty comprehensive list here.
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