Can anyone help me create a game similar to the ones mentioned above? It isn't intended to have lots of graphics, but maybe a few... Any response will be much appreciated.

Hi there!

Helping as in "code with you" I can't right now (got my own projects), but I can lend you a hand on how you should start. Here's how it goes:

First, you must decide whether or not you're going to use graphics because the way the main program will run will be a bit different. I don't really know any of the games you mentioned, but I believe they may be either RPGs or Board games.

If you're going to go text, it's quite simple, decide what keyboard characters are going to represent every different kind of "thing" (you may reuse them in an RPG, but that's more a design decision so I'll leave it to ya ), a sort of screen size and that's it. If you're going to go graphical, then you still need to design art (no stealing ) and basically work your way around to present all menus graphically.

For programming languages, I'd say just about any language will do for text-only games (perhaps C, PHP and Java are the best choices for that) and for graphics, a nice way to do it is to get the SDL Library which is very intuitive and easy to use in C++. I can point you around some tutorials for it if you want, too.

If I knew a bit more on the type of game you're making, I'd give some more help, but no game you intend to make "escapes" what I said above.

Good luck on your game!

Well, if you don't, then you've missed the whole point. Those games are not the ones you install from a CD, they are browser-based games. It is all made in php and mysql. You should try one of those, they are very addicting.

As for you, yakobob, I think you don't have to bother. As you said yourself, there are plenty of games like that and people are quite fond of it. It really isn't necessary to make more of those. Of course, if you have spare time and don't mind spending a lot of money with only some chance of getting it back, sure, why not give it a go

Heh. My bad.

What's keeping me from trying them is that you say they're addicting. Must... stay... free...

Sorry for giving away unnecessary information then!

pyost, you got it right there on browser based games. It was about two years back and I discovered them, and my first impulse as a programmer and a game enthusiast was to design one of my own. But them, after I did some research, I found that there are a lot of such games out there and I just dropped the idea.

Now, I have shifted to something more in term of content - world building. I am trying to do a bit of art, design and literature based around a realm me and my friend created. If that is accepted by some people and attracts a community, we might think of launching such games based on them. Till then, I am sticking to world building for personal pleasure.

As for you yakobob, just rethink on your priorities. If you think that by heaven or hell you need to get a browser based text game out there, as pyost said, go ahead. But if you are into more wider development and content creation, think of it a bit more. (I just cannot resist a shameless plug here: If you are interested in contributing to world-building we are currently doing, give me a PM).

This post has been edited by Vyoma: Mar 25 2006, 07:47 AM

I have created a text/turn based game and could be of some assistance if you want to check it out its at aftermath.nexuslite.com

well there are alot of this text base games around..
some are well written and some are not..

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maybe the first you must decide is to find a host stable enough to handle the database request..
it is the first one that will likely crash..

if u make anything free for sprint pcs ppl an want to test them, let me know as i have my own free download page where i can upload files for ppl to download to hlp u test them with ppl. it needs jar an jad files




if u make anything free for sprint pcs ppl an want to test them, let me know as i have my own free download page where i can upload files for ppl to download to hlp u test them with ppl. it needs jar an jad files




if u make anything free for sprint pcs ppl an want to test them, let me know as i have my own free download page where i can upload files for ppl to download to hlp u test them with ppl. it needs jar an jad files

i also need help
Help Me Create A Text-based, Turn-based Game

I would also like to create my own text based games so any tips for yakobob ill look at and I hope ill be able to do a game, thanks

I hope someone knows something helpful

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