How do i create a text-based game?

[robot]

I have coded 3 web games with php/mysql before. but now i've quit operating them. operating a web game require lots of effort and time. the demand for updates and feature are never ending but then it is fun to see someone like to play ur game.
for all those who are keep to start creating a web game, learn HTML,CSS and Javascript first to create website
then some PHP and Mysql to make some dynamic function. it may takes several month just for you to create a simple game function if you learn from scratch. well, someone has to start somewhere right.

[toto]

The best way to get a cool game is:
1. Hire somebody to make the design
2. Hire somebody to write the codes
3. Hire somebody to run the game

They simply take too long to make if you are working by yourself. If you, however, wish to make it, the best method is to learn PHP, HTML and mySQL.

[Marek]

The best way to get a cool game is:
1. Hire somebody to make the design
2. Hire somebody to write the codes
3. Hire somebody to run the game

They simply take too long to make if you are working by yourself. If you, however, wish to make it, the best method is to learn PHP, HTML and mySQL.

Then you're not making the game. Most people who are interested in making a game, I would assume, are interested in creating something on their own. It doesn't need to be huge, but at least you can say, "I made that."

[sokii]

can someone pick up back on this topic? I want to learn more on how to create a text based game...are there any links to the different things needed in order to create a text based game?

I'm just looking to have a basic text based game...then gradually work it to become better...oh and also for FREE...well of course you have to spend time and effort...which I'm willing to spend...

[Sinzygy]

Here is something I just wrote exactly for those questions.

And in the future, please refrain from posting the same thing in 3 different topics. Thanks

[sokii]

Thank you very much ^_^ and I wont need to post about this again...lol...

[Sinzygy]

You're welcome

I hope it answered your questions.

[bobton]

Well new games why dont you go on the net and look for a very basic version there are loads out there that give you all teh code you need but you use it and then learn from that and then make your own game from that

[leZourite]

Anyway whatever game you do, or whatever you do in life for instance, you first need to come up with an idea, inspiration and creativity must come first, you may change ideas while developing but you need a good foundation to start !

So in short saying : i want to do a game, is like saying i wanna be a doctor gimme some patient to heal !, gotta learn from the beginning before doing anything. Getting a ready to use script won't help either at one moment or another something won't be working like you would like, if you don't have the skill, you aren't going to do a nice job either.

Building a game as easy as it "seems", is a lot of time effort and skills involved, moreover you will have to get ready to scrap parts of the code and start from scratch when something is not done right. Doing things that "works" for instance are "easy", doing thing that "works" are "fast" and don't "break" if there is some unexpected event that occurs is on much more another level.

This is one of the reason you got lots of script kiddies (nothing to do with viruses ;p) that made their ultra super great games and nobody plays them because there is no innovation the game is just the script installed as is and some cosmetic changes here and there and is prone to break at first attempt at XSS or whatever.

Sorry if this look like a "rant" but because it's a game, it doesn't mean you don't have to be "serious" to make it !

[overklokan]

check this excellent tutorials and make sure you read "getting started" and parts 1, 2 and 3:

http://www.gamespp.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?tutorials#gamedevelopment

[JohnMunsch]

can CGI with perl work on making text games>?

There seem to be some weird misconceptions about languages and these games. PHP has no lock on building a game. You could just as easily use Java (JSP or servlets), Perl (via CGI), Python, or (my preference) Ruby on Rails.

For any of these languages you are typically taking HTML and adding code to it that will execute on the server when the page is requested. When the code executes on the server it can update variables, perform database operations, etc. before modifying the HTML of the page and sending the HTML down to the user's browser.

One person suggested that a game could be written just using HTML. No, it can't. You could write a game which used JavaScript on the client side to execute part of the game (sort of a Choose Your Own Adventure kind of thing) but you couldn't make it multi-player in any practical way.

P.S. overklokan - I'm not sure that particular tutorial about building games which run on Windows or DOS is very helpful to people interested in building PBBGs. The two types of games couldn't be much more different in how they operate.

[overklokan]

i don't think that posts about php/mysql/java/etc are very helpful as an answers on
thread starting question ... there's like 100+ "engines" one could use to make game but
without proper PLANNING, clear idea of what game development requires and what are
the stages one will end very confused ... technology used is the last stage, not the first!
also, i think anyone with brain will figure out what parts inside those tutorials are written
as general info and what parts could be skipped ...