RE: questions was Re: Looking for a free or open source gaming engine
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:22:10 -0500
It's 99$ for a personal version which does not allow you to charge. Now you
will probably laugh but I have been selling the business version for 899$
and yes I have sold them. I am selling them that high for two reasons. One
I am the lone coder so I don't want millions of people to buy it. Two it's
a one of a kind thing. Our rather crappy home page is www.valhalla.com and
yes I know its hard to use the order forms with Accessibility and I promises
as soon as I get the time it will be accessible.
Now another thing it only runs on Redhat 7 not fedora 7 but redhat 7 and yes
as soon as I get my Fedora box 9 up and running I will fix that problem but
shrug I am a one man band and currently my super block is missing on my dev
box. I have a bunch of parts and no time.
Now with all that said you might want to look at some of the open source mud
engines out there before you roll your own. Circle mud is the easiest but
it has the least in it as well. That makes it easy to bend to your will
though. Then there is rom which is the next step up but the most advanced
and configurable is the Dot muds. Easy to set up and totally c++
None of them have the language like mine but if you have the source you
don't need it.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Elf
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:54 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: questions was Re: Looking for a free or open source gaming
engine
hmmmm, now you have my attention, what are you charging for this server
module? smile
I'm currently writing a combination "D&D" and futuristic era setting Role
Playing Game, so am quite interested.
The Elf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 7:54 PM
Subject: RE: questions was Re: Looking for a free or open source gaming
engine
>
>
> Oh I also wanted to answer your question completely. My commercial mud
> engine vme already can do a space game, a hack and slash, I used it once
> to
> run on line D&D game complete with character sheets and dice, I have even
> toyed with making the old barrens realms game. If you can make it in text
> my DIL language and game server can handle it.
>
> Ken
>
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> jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 7:39 PM
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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-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [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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