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Hey im new to this whole gameing thing but i want to make a game like lostpower.com.. what is my starting point and what do i need to do...?

[A12Alex]

get $300 lol... thats how much MC codes cost. lostpower looks like it has a lot of mods. so i would say the total cost of this game looks around the over $600 mark... tho... now thats im looking at it more... it looks like a really moded Mc codes V1 which is $70

[Zeggy]

That's if you wanna buy a script.
Or, you could learn to code

You might wanna check out this topic:
http://community.bbgamezone.net/index.php/topic,483.0.html

[Sakurazaki]

I'd suggest learning about the coding first. >.> Try using an easy script first to get the hang of it then creating your own.

[vizion]

Buying your own script is a bad idea I think. It just seems like it would be at least as much work, if not more, as writing your own. You'd have to figure out where everything is, how it all works together, and then modify it for your own game. Seems like a lot of work to pay for. There are plenty of free scripts anyway. The only one I really like is ezRPG by Zeggy since it's so simple that it won't take long to start modifying it for your own needs. With ezRPG you basically just skip coding the boring stuff like registration (although you should beef up the registration later on anyway) and the index page and get right to coding content.

[Sakurazaki]

Although ezrpg lacks a bit of things, but there should be a new version in development if I'm not mistaken. >.>

[Equinox]

Much better learning to code - all good having a script but if you dont know what to do with it, its pretty useless.

[vizion]

Although ezrpg lacks a bit of things, but there should be a new version in development if I'm not mistaken. >.>

It's this lack of things that makes it good. Therefore you can make all of the real content your own. It's also easy to completely change how everything done in the code since it's so simplistic. I made all of the pages run on Smarty and starting storing sessions in the database while changing very little code. If you pick up a complete script like Legend of the Green Dragon or NEABExplorer, it's almost impossible to customize it without spending as much time as you would have spent just writing one from scratch.