Kadaj

I sent a pm to Big_K about it explaining in more detail what the game is about. I added my other idea about PK where after a certain level they can kill other players but if they do they get marked as a PKer and can have a bounty put on their head by other players or pay the bounty off at a NPC

Hope it gets picked for a community project. *Crosses Fingers*

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MicDareall

If you really want to do this and would be willing to learn programming....I suggest you start with Python.....it would easily handle everything you need done and is, in my oppinion, the easiest language to learn and use....and with the Pygame library(pygame.org) it would be really easy to make this....... If you do, I suggest starting with http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/... its a lesson plan started for teaching kids to program using Python and a wrapper around the pygame library and it makes it farely easy to start with, and you'll be taking a direction towards learning what you need to for the game as you learn the python language itself..... I suggest diving straight into pygame when building the game though........

coldDeath

Sane, a member of these forums is pretty damned good at pygame, maybe he'd like to help (if he isn't too busy with his current project).

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Arevos

A project like this seems too big to be feasible. MMO games ain't easy. And nor are video games in general, come to think about it.

nnxion

Oh, sorry bout that. A basic game would be cool, if someone were to lay it out really well, and take the time to make all the models, diagrams and publish it all on CVS/Sub-Version, then it would probably work to get the community involved.

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Kadaj

If everyone thought like that then nothing would ever get done and everybody would sit round moaning that they "Could" of done it but it was too hard.

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Arevos

There's a difference between ambitious and infeasible. I've seen a lot of community developed 2D and 3D MMORPG projects. I've yet to see any that has been completed.

The reality is that to build such a game would require, at the very least, a year's work by a full-time team of experienced programmers. That's a lot of man-hours, and you'd be hard pressed to find volunteers willing to put that much of their life into such a project.

That's not to say MMO community games haven't worked. Text-based MUDs have successfully been developed by communities, and so too have Web-based MMO games. Those are two genres I'd see as feasible, but a 2D MMO game? Sorry, I'm not convinced.

Indigno

I have to agree with you there. It's going to take forever to get Element done, how are we going to get a MMORPG game done?

Harvest moon.

coldDeath

Harvest Moon!

Thats the one. :-)

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Indigno

I got totally adicted to that game. Then I got bored and went back to starcraft and wolfenstein.