text based game?

fatywombat

To make a text based game i would need to know what?

PHP, mySQL, and what others???

Thanks

Trs2988

Ooo, that happens to be my speciality.

In order to make the most basic text-based game (using the said resources), you'd have to have an active knowledge of HTML, PHP, and MySQL. Of course, you could always learn extras to enhance things - CSS, JavaScript, etc. But HTML, PHP, and MySQL are the biggies.

fatywombat

So thats what you do. Do you have any games that are availible? How long did it take you before you could even start to make one. Any other big things you have to say. Thanks for the quick response =]

Trs2988

Well, I did. But lately I haven't had much time at all to give to it, so it's become run-down and nothing like it was before.

Anyway, it's hard for me to give the amount of time that it took. It was one of my first, major projects with PHP. I started small, just making the basic systems - messaging, stats, battling, etc. Slowly I built more on top of everything, and eventually I had a full-fledged game.

Probably the best advice I can give is to use functions and functions and function and functions. If you do the same or similar thing in more than one place, use a function. No question about it. I can't tell you how many times I changed something in my game, and had to go back and change it every single time that I had used the same or similar code. Using functions from the beginning saves a huge headache.

fatywombat

Thanks for the input.

Napster

I have a lord of the rings RPG site where you have stats, messaging, batteling etc, this is how I learned to code. A huge hint is to have a single file such as common.php and include it in every page. This file has the database connection, variables, functions etc.

fatywombat

Napster wrote:
I have a lord of the rings RPG site where you have stats, messaging, batteling etc, this is how I learned to code. A huge hint is to have a single file such as common.php and include it in every page. This file has the database connection, variables, functions etc.

Awsome. Thanks for all these hints. So i definately have a lot to learn w/ php, i started to learn it as i know basically the basics, but functions and stuff gave me a little problems so ill have to re-read that stuff. So to start i should just make a basic log in system, and then have the ability to train my guys.

BTW im wanting to do some kind of sport manager game ie soccer/futbol and or American Football. Examples of this is www.sokker.org and www.hattrick.org.

So to get started do i need to know a lot about php or just start out w/ basics like the login system and stuff. And as i learn more i can just start over or would it be better to learn php to a good extent then start one?