[KYA]

Well a 2D MMO like the little hack and slashers could be done in VB




(if the dev was suicidal and his wife kicked him out of the house)

[gabehabe]

A quote from WolfCoder, describing how much you really have to consider. Remember, this guy spends a lot of time making games, and he's been programming for six years:

WolfCoder, on 16 Jun, 2008 - 04:10 AM, said:

I don't even have the plans for the WeaponSoul MMORPG (a tactical battle instance, free roam normal mode MMORPG) yet, just drawing the plans up will take me a month or so. The designs call for a JAVA server and a C-Script/C++ 3D windows client and another lite client written in JAVA in 2D for cross platform-ness. Lastly, a admin remote control in JAVA that sends messages to the program for maintainence and stuff.

I would have to write 2 clients and a horribly huge JAVA program that handles all the crap, and then I would have to find some server to run it on. I know how to do it but the work is WAY TOO MUCH. It sure is a really good and fun idea for an MMORPG though, I fantasize about it sometimes~ I would love to play that game.

[gabehabe]

...wow. Out of 26 pages, there were only 3 good quotes. Oh well.

Thanks to Tom and 1lacca, for a few links to APIs which could potentially be used in the creation of an MMO game:

Tom9729, on 17 Jun, 2008 - 06:52 AM, said:

I've been having trouble finding it as well, but I've heard of something like that before from Sun so I'm pretty sure it exists. Maybe we've just got the name wrong.

Anyways, there are many MMORPG frameworks out there. Here is one that I've read about in the past and considered using.

Here's a couple of similar things.

Posting the words "how do I make a mmorpg" if you have fewer than 10 posts should automatically redirect to that page. I'm not sure how hard that would be to do, but skyhawk if you set that up you will be my hero.

1lacca, on 17 Jun, 2008 - 10:02 AM, said:

My bad, it is DarkStar not BlackStar
It is here. It has C and other APIs as well, so it is not only for Java people.

About rewriting such things from scratch is NIH but it can b fun, and rewarding in terms of learning - you just don't get to write your actual game play and content, because building the actual infrastructure is a really big task in itself. However I would not call anything MM while it only administers a couple of clients - say 100-150, because I've seen FPS multiplayer that could do that (Joint Operations for example). Also, as soon as you are thinking about getting people writing modules for you, it could be just the same using something that already exists, and has much bigger support and knowledge behind it, that you could get hold of in a reasonable time.

[KYA]

Wolf is right, for one person that is overwhelming, hence, this why people have development teams.

[WolfCoder]

This is a tutorial I wrote. I've actually made a chat room before, I ran the server off my laptop and had random people take copies of my client program and talk in it. You entered my target in a dialog box and there you were, it was kinda like IRC.

I think you should make a chat room before you even think about making an MMORPG.

edit:
Notice how at the end I hint that writing a tutorial for making an MMORPG, it would just be a starting place and it would still be a series of tutorials which I never get around to writing. Plus I think I was a little tired and insane when I wrote that one...

This post has been edited by WolfCoder: 24 August 2008 - 04:28 PM

[Rickster0]

There's one thing that i have noticed since i have been a member a DIC and that is ,there are so many topics on how to make a MMO

well..I did some searching most of the night and found this.

Net Rmxp Online 2.0

this will be fairly good for noobs who want to get there game out fast like i have done.

here is a link

for Net Rmxp Online 2.0 HERE


it will be easyier if you know how to use RMXP and if you know Ruby.

but you can set it up if you don't know ruby.

Hope his helps all you MMO Frantics

[gabehabe]

And if you know Italian.

You know, you didn't need to start a new topic~

There's a pinned topic, with an almost identical name.

Merged.

[KYA]

I feel the need to bump this thread for the betterment of the community.

[WolfCoder]

You could make an MMORPG in RMXP ruby? That's pretty cool.

[historyinourfuture]

Hello im new to this i would just like to say thank you to the person who made this thread its has help me out a lot and i will start working very hard on my programing to some day make a mmorpg and most of my team(friends) already know how to lol well thank you very much

[gabehabe]

Glad I could help

Remember to take it slow, don't rush it. And feel free to post any of your questions in the corresponding forums, our experts will be happy to help you out.

Oh, and welcome to </dream.in.code>

[WolfCoder]

I can honestly say that if you're having to ask about how to make an MMORPG on a forum, you can't make one with your experience level.

Only when you know both game programming and network programming, and you have to have a programmer's lifetime's worth of knowledge and can code yourself anything, and have a team of people just as skilled, then you have a good shot at an actual fun MMORPG.

y'know that starts to sound something like- I don't know -a GAME DEVELOPMENT STUDIO!
I've heard much about them and you should get one because it can help you with making an MMORPG.

This post has been edited by WolfCoder: 07 October 2008 - 09:42 AM

[SuperGogeta]

i read it and didn't understand Moderator.Can you help me.

[Bort]

If you are interested in discovering what it takes to program an MMO, check out swgemu.com. They have spent the past several years (3 I think) trying to reprogram the original Star Wars Galaxies game because Sony Online Entertainment screwed it up.

This post has been edited by Bort: 08 October 2008 - 06:40 AM

[WolfCoder]

Such a daunting task~! How do you unfuck that which has been fucked? Hehehe!