Goin into online gaming business - any helpfull tips of the

Mannelig · Post by **Mannelig** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 3:07 am

Me, Sean-san his sister and a select few of others are making the fIRST online space shooter to incorperate True Roleplay. I was wondering if any has a respected programming idea for this, should it be c++ or java? should it be a big server?
heres what we got;
400+ ships
10 ship classes
5 Races, each his own personality
1700+ weapons
300+ interconnected star systems
Unique emrchant trades system
Topdown

any hints, ideas, anything reply here please.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:41 am

C++ is the best for developing games, and it sounds like a fairly large game, so I say a quite good server is definately a must. I also like the idea of a space shooter, I was even planning one a while ago (It never got very far).

drag · Post by **drag** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:55 am

actualy, c++ is no longer used by the big gaming companies. most are switching to jave. have u played games such as Warcraft3? Diablo 2? The Sims? well, those are all java. you can do more with java, but its also harder to use. you can make you own desition, and, this is a download game, right? cuase i dont really wanna play a game i need to pay for.

drag the freindly dwarf

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 7:13 am

If you want to make it real easy, use Basic, but the amount of things you can do with it is a very small list compared to C++ and J++.

martin · Post by **martin** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:00 am

i can't believe that diablo 2, warcraft etc. were written in java. java is a simply much to slow and ineffective. C/C++. that's it and nothing else (except you want to use assembler *g*).

martin

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:42 am

Add my vote for C++

C++ can do the graphics and TCP/IP a lot better and easier than any other language listed, IMO, and I just don't think that Java is up to par yet. And Java games I've played so far have been found lacking.

Serpardum

Chyan Guo Messenger · Post by **Chyan Guo Messenger** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 1:52 pm

warcraft 1-2 is stratigy, not rpg, but ..... World of Warcraft is RPG i beleive.... <---(it java too?)
for warcraft java doesnt look so bad, its interresting a bit.

Gugo · Post by **Gugo** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 2:30 pm

Warcraft 3 on java!? Are you crazy! C/C++/C# is the best and will be for next 2 years for sure! As for software Visual Studio.net is something!

Mannelig · Post by **Mannelig** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 7:18 pm

Early plans include an offline arena version to test your ship layouts and it is an execuble, Pay to Play might be in the future but its to early to say as of yet. and warcraft3 is IMPOSSIBLE to play if it was in java......but I heard the c++ is hard to learn and I got put on the programming team, hehe great....I cannot even program. Any sites to goto for c++ research?

martin · Post by **martin** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:33 pm

man google

martin

Chyan Guo Messenger · Post by **Chyan Guo Messenger** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:11 pm

and yes, that is the search engine he he he.

Mannelig · Post by **Mannelig** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:24 pm

google was bloody useless...

Chyan Guo Messenger · Post by **Chyan Guo Messenger** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:28 pm

mannelig, this might help, i find this search engine quite usefull at times, but NO garuntees.

www.att.net
or it was www.worldnet.att.net

oh, you find it......

use its search engine....

Mannelig · Post by **Mannelig** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:37 pm

theres an editor called ark basic, its got a free demo so I gues sI'll fick around with it for a while.