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I want to make an online, multiplayer, text based game

And I don’t know where to start. I have a server and a domain (bluedancingpenguin.com) with cpanel and mysql and whatnot… but what else do I need? Is there a program that can do alot of my work for me? I’m looking for one, but I can’t seem to find anything. Give me a hand?

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@BambaApr 07.2006 — Ya, I too am going to be working with penguin and any information would be greatly appreciated!
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYApr 07.2006 — what server-side languages do you know? (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc..)
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@bdpenguinauthorApr 07.2006 — Well thats the fun part.... I got nothin... I know html alright, and I'm sure php shouldn't be too hard... I took a 3 years of programming in HS (1 VB, 1 C++ & 1 Java) And I picked up on them pretty quickly.
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYApr 07.2006 — ok, then, go with PHP

learn the basics (manual, http://w3schools.com/php , http://zend.com , http://php.net)

get the manual (http://php.net/documentation)

refresh your memory about HTML forms, learn database interaction

and you should be good to go
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@TiGGiApr 07.2006 — Actuly if you have it available on your server I would go with ColdFusion, much easier to learn and whole lot better!!!

As far as the game goes I would suggest Flash, which works great with ColdFusion also Flash Remoting is free. ( Connects flash apps with databases)
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYApr 07.2006 — text based...text based..tiggi
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@bdpenguinauthorApr 07.2006 — Yes yes... thanks for the help thus far. I want the game to be somethine like Re!gn online ([URL=http://www.fortyeight.net/games]http://www.fortyeight.net/games[/URL] ). Would anyone perhaps know where I could find a temlate of some sort, or a program which would help me program the game? That would be appreciated =)
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@welshApr 07.2006 — most text based games are custom built to suit the makers need.
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@bdpenguinauthorApr 08.2006 — well if most are, that means some are off of a template that i would like to get my hands on
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYApr 08.2006 — nope, i dont think so
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@welshApr 08.2006 — if there is some mysterious template it certainly not be free and it would certainly require you to buy it and i would like to rephrase that. there are most likely no templates because there are so many things to consider, im [i]attempting[/i] to build one and i couldnt see how there could possibly be a template that would allow you to have a unique game.
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYApr 08.2006 — why not learning? that's the fun part!
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@bdpenguinauthorApr 09.2006 — I'm working on learning... I've got a login script on my website now :-p
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