Hi there, now ive read many posts on people asking for help on how to make a text based game, i'd like to make one myself and I know some PHP and MySQL to go for it.

Ok that out of the way, the programming languages going to be used for it will be PHP and MySQL (if you've not already guessed that)

I'm just looking for some help and stuff like that to get me on my way, im a complete beginner to this whole text based game stuff, sooo any help would be appreciated thanks!

PS: dont say go to MCCodes or anything, that website is just a bunch of kiddies making some buggy codes

-Mico

They should make this one sticky
-> http://www.astahost.com/how-make-test-base...ame-t18160.html

Yeah, i've seen this before but had a bit of trouble with the getting your codes part, everyone seems to be saying that MCCodes are a load of rubbish, does anyone know where i can get any others? i've searched for hours on end and just thought about giving up but then was reminded how much work ive done researching already, sooo...anyone know anything?

You can increase your PHP, mysql and alot of more programming language knowledge through one of these sites:

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/syntax.php <--basic
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_ajax_intro.asp <-- better than the previous one

Also if you want to make a game you have to know how to design it,
http://www.maketemplate.com/ <-- generates CSS files and you can understand what each code does by changing them, also you can just input colors and fontsizes and generate what you want.

As for helping you in your game if you can offer a general idea on what your game will be,example turn based, war game, strategy game... maybe i can help

Also have a look at the "similar topics" below this post, this is a very nice feature of astahost forum. You will see that there are already a lot of topics concerning text-based games, some of them have already received a lot of answers.
Regards
Yordan

I know there is one that you can run and MOD yourself. It's called phaos.

Can you tell us a little bit more about phaos ? Do you use it ? How does it work ? Shall we connect to a website and do it online, or is it a software you download from the master site ? Can you please give us the corresponding URL ?
Yordan

phaos is 2D not text based if im not mistaken ?

Im not too sure exactly what you would like to achieve, but there is something called the Indigo Codebase which is written in php for the development of text based games in a similar vein to MUDS. Other than that, if you dont mind moving away from a web based architecture and into a server/client architecture, you could use a myriad of different mud servers to create your game and use a web based client interface to connect to the game server.


If you would like more information on any of these things, by all means ask. I develop a text and 2d based hybrid game using the EldhaMUD game engine, take a look about my site and if your interested in the sort of thing i have been doing im sure i could assist you in getting your own project started.