How To Make A Game - games

How do i make a game to put on a website?? i think it will be fun to do and a good experince. so if you could please reply and i would thank you alot. like make a racing game or something like that.

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well, it depends if you want it web-based or client-based.

Web-based games are ones like runescape (runescape.com an example using java) or Adventurequest (battleon.com, an example using flash) or slavehack (slavehack.com, an example using PHP/MySql)

The first thing you need if you are going to program a game like this is knoledge of the language, id play about with PHP/MYSQL before you start (both installed on astahost) using w3schools.com, think of ideas whilst your doing this, for flash games you need Adobe Flash on your PC, you can download a free trial at adobe.com. Java, i dont know a thing about, only that it and javascript aint the same thing (this confused me to insanity when i thought they were the same thing XD)

If you are making, as you say, a racing game which is web-based, be prepared to pay for either Flash or Java.

With client-based games (games that you download) it becomes slightly easier, there are programs out there to help you, including gamemaker (gamemaker.nl) and im sure there will be many more.

So yeah, one tip: before you start, plan and sort any potential problems, otherwise you will run into major problems, sometimes even need to use another language which makes what you did faitly pointless....

Once you start, you will find that most programming languages are similer and will pick them up in no time, or at least thats what i found happens

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The main groups are desktop (I suggest C++/opengl), text (PHP), and Browser (Java/Flash). Pick a language you know, and just start off small. The creator of Runescape made stuff like minesweeper and tetris for ages.

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