RE: questions was Re: Looking for a free or open source gaming engine
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:53:14 -0500
I have always wanted to write a game servers server but I have found that no
matter how many bells and whistles I put in people still want more. For
example I had thought once to write a card game server that's it just a card
game server. Do you know the millions of different card games that some
idiot is going to want to write. I had one guy ask well we have this game
where we put one deck on the floor till we are ready for it can you code
that in? Hell if I coded that in the next thing is hey I want a stack on
every planet sure I could generically code this but the API then gets so
nasty no one wants to use my card game server because they have to learn a
whole nasty API before they can write Go Fish. Now that is just talking
cards. I happen to run a commercial mud and sell the servers. My game
server can almost do anything you want but we always come across that thing
that people want it to do. Heck how about this one guy wanted to post all
the stats to a web page of his choice. Now he didn't just want to post it
he wanted to use secure https and he wanted to allow each clan on the game
to post to their site that they had defined. Sure sure this is possible but
I again go into what is possible and what is easy enough for the 13 year old
game server runners out there because I am sorry it is a rare 40 year old
game server running nerd. Um I am not 40 yet am I?
Well anyway I am game if you're willing to write it and make it simple
enough to have people use it but I think you will find that something like
PHP is already dynamic enough to make what you want possible.
Ken
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Subject: questions was Re: Looking for a free or open source gaming enginee
Hi. I have some questions with regards to game engines. first, do we have
to write or implement a gaming engine for every game we plan to write? What
do game engines do? can't we just say, write a game software with all the
bells and whistles coded in, then expect it to work fine in tandem with
DirectX, or the hardware specs we are aiming for, for example. My next
question is, are game engines portable, not just accross platforms, but
across game genres? like could we write a game engine for an adventure game
which is full of sword fights and monsters and demons, then port it to
another adventure game, but with more puzzles and riddles and logic required
for the player to win the game? Or could we even use the same game engine
to write or implement a totally different sort of game? Grateful for any
informative answer. Cheers!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 8:04 AM
Subject: RE: Looking for a free or open source gaming engine
> Ken,
>
> I know it would be easy to write. <smile It is a question of finding the
> time to write it. As you say, mysql would be a good way to go and that is
> exactly how I am thinking of going.
>
> I know visual basic .net so was thinking of writing the engine in that
> language. However, I wonder would using python or perl help in this
> implementation?
>
> Pranav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:21 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Looking for a free or open source gaming engine
>
>
>
> Well what you are talking about is very easy to write with something like
> Php, pearl, or python and Apache. It don't even have to be xml if you use
> mysql with them.
>
> You could modify any of the mud bases to do this but the truth is writing
> this from scratch would be an easy adventure.
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 9:52 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Looking for a free or open source gaming engine
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not looking for anything very sophisticated. All I want is some kind
> of
> online engine that I can run on my server. All I need the engine to do is
> to
> play game books. So, the engine would need to pass an XML file, present a
> scenario to the user and give the user a developer customisable amount of
> choices. Once the user chooses a particular choice, the next scenario
> should
> be presented to the user.
>
> Pranav
>
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