A hockey based game

[Aravinthan]

Hi,
My name is Ara. I was thinking for a while of making of a hockey browser based game. I found a game that is really close of what I want: http://www.goodhockey.com
I would something like that, except with real teams and real players of the nhl(nhl.com). I would also like to add minor team options and propects options.I know HTMl, XHTML, XML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT,PHP and MYSQL. I already made some sites. Including my personal: http://aravinthan.x10hosting.com
If someone can guide/help me it would be really great.

Thanks for your help,
Ara

[Nox]

With such a extensive knowledge I don't think it should be a problem for you,
you might only need a webdesigner.

I'm not sure though, if it's possible to have real teams' names and logos, without speaking to every single club you want to add. Sometimes a company even pays to have a logo in game, as it's an advert, but as you don't have famous references, I don't think this would be the case and you'd probably have to pay a lot of money for it. Otherwise the game you wrote a link to would probably have real teams as well.
I'm not a lawyer though, but...

What kind of guide do you look for?
There's one for pbbg on website this forum is part of, but it just covers some aspects.
As for general tutorials for the languages, I know several interesting sites mainly for php, but unfortunately not in english.

[saljutin]

the hardest thing with this sport games is Game Engine which is NOT programming but logics...how game is played, WHO wins and WHY he wins, or WHO scores and WHY.

[Brandon]

the hardest thing with this sport games is Game Engine which is NOT programming but logics...how game is played, WHO wins and WHY he wins, or WHO scores and WHY.

Absolutely, especially with free form games like hockey, soccer, football, etc.  A game like baseball, on the contrary, is much easier to simulate because it is all sequential.  The only game sim engine I would EVER dare attempt is baseball, mainly due to my knowledge of the sport, but also because it would be the easiest to simulate, and track stats.

[Aravinthan]

Thank's for your help guys, what I really would like, is ,like saljutin and brandon said, the logic. I mean making the game schedule, what players score goals and all. Other way I think I can pull it off myself, with of course with help of a webdesigner, as I am not very good.
So if someone has some guides/ tutorials related it would be great that if you guys can post links.
Thanks,
Ara

[jannesiera]

You certainly have to check out:

http://www.buildingbrowsergames.com // A blog about browser based game development

http://www.modulargaming.com  // A browser based game framework

http://www.lostgarden.com // An awesome blog I recently discovered!!! It's about browser based game development (mostly game design, game sience and art) Edit: it's really big too, I'm slowly working my way through them all. Maybe I've read them all by next year 

[saljutin]

I was trying to tell you that game engine is your own explanation why goal happened, lets say like that:
-team has puck (why)
-player controls puck and skates to goalie (why - because he is better then defenders - why?)
-player shoots and scores (why - which skills determine why he scored)

and so on...this is the HARDEST and most important game section and it will be your player magnet (either one side or another side )
yes sure you can create = IF SUM(player skills) > SUM(goalie skills) -> goal! but that would be some very very basic and suckish engine

[Caesium]

I've been planning to make a game like this for a while, but haven't really gotten the ball rolling due to school and work.  I'm kind of stumped on how to actually sim a game. 

[Quantz]

I recently coded a game like this. The engine is fairly simple and could use some work. If your interested in expanding on it with me I'd be glad to share the code with you. Get back to me at doug_j_waters@hotmail.com