Hi everyone!
I was just woundering if it was really possible to create an
MassaveMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame [SIZE=2]in Flash. I have seen one game called DOFUS Created by a French Programmer. From what i heard this game is said to be made in flash! I couldnt believe what i heard! Do any of you know if that is possible. But i also believe he used other program languages.[/SIZE]
I imagine it would be possible. But I doubt its the best suitable entity to create an MMORPG.
Oh i found out that there are many threads here about this game. But anyone know how that is done? i mean it must have tooken a long timeto create that. How is it possible to make a virtual world with so much interactions, isnt that past the limits of flash?
no… its just past your limits, its not as hard as people think, just go download one of those pre-compiled servers and start learning sockets, and read and learn as much as you can about mmorpg gaming and how its done
It’s not really that hard its just the amount of script that would be needed on both ends flash and server. It’s something that requires a team to do. Although you could make a small world where people can interact, but a full scale engine would take a massive amount of time.
Learn JAVA. mmm… Java.
really this game is made with java too, since its in flash it would be AS
ya this game would need a whole team of designers and programers. Lol now im starting to run far from the idea of game design but maybe in the future! It would be also awsome to see it devolop and working with other people would be fun!
I would be willing to work with some people on creating a game like multiplayer rpg that would be great experience! im pretty good with vector art and im also familiar with basic action script
I think its a tile based world. but i still cant believe its done in flash lol
I play dofus, that game is fun. Its really simple compared to WoW, they can go a lot further with it if they want.
dofus is a tad laggy for me. I do dofus-arena every now and then, it’s a fun little thing to do in between studying.
bomb don’t you have some kind of dejavu as well? :pleased:
dofus is cool. btw, is battleon considered an mmorpg or just an rpg
I was working with flash for some time naw… and I always return to MMORPG idea time to time… but after some tech tests I say… hm… “not jet”…
first of all RPG is a dificult gender to make a game about. it requares a good lead and team work…
well dificult… is not imposible…
rpg is dificult… then MMORPG is lot more worst. you must solve a lot of problems… security… sinchronization… …
… still posible… jus “lot of work”^2. and no such things as “one man army” here is posible…
then… flash graphic… flash visual engine is very weak. and starts to lag verry quicly… I am dreaming about direct x suport or something that whould actualy use PC graphic card…
grid sistems… isometric… is posible… but its a step back. and a big question… is it worth it to make game like this? with weak visuals. Sure we can have verry interesting idea of MMORPG that graphic will be not so important, but… maybe its better make it C++ or JAVA then from the start, and bring this superb idea to the world with good looks too.
so… 3d is a dream… imposible…
tile/isometric worlds is posible. and… usualy not without a problems. its easy to bring project to “■■■■ this thing is laggy!! oh no…”… in no time.
server side… posible… again… not without problems. its not so easy to make good server side program.
there are soliutions like media server… but its too expensive…
you can go php… but its sometimes so laggy…
I wonder that kind of good we will have out of red5 server… (free.)
and of course… you can write server side software from the scrach using language you like… and performance is in your hands. (lot of work…) but posible.
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so big big problems with visuals. thats what I see.
at the moment I play with performance algorithms/bitmaps/random maps generation/animation engines… and do lot of tests, they teach me… helps with my work naw… and I hope will be usefull in the future doing something like flash RPG. 
at the moment I am testing rogueLike rpg ideas.
randomMaps… graphic is simple (usualy top down), pernament death, grid maps/and turn based engines.
well rpg is cool gender… and I a lot of RPG fans dream about making the game of there own. but I guess 95% just give up after they see how hard its is.
if you want to make rpg like game first advise… take a lot of paper… and start writing concept document… write all details:… weapons… armors… general items… battle sistem… stats sistems… quests… dialogues… storyline… create monster tables… create NPC characters… drow a world map… dungeon maps… if world is not linear… write all trigers and actions. that will change the world…
if you finish doing this… then you can start thinking about actual game development… if you will think that your game worth it of course…
and never give up your ideas.
bad ideas is here to tech us… so we could know there to go next.
good luck all.
Deril.
thanks deril for your speech! have you ever thought of bieng a motovational speaker? lol anyways i just wanted to know if the creators of dofus used other program languages to make the game. Do any of you know what programing languages are used in mmorpgs? is it c++ and java or much more
i thought it would be much better to do one in flash since its easy to create vector graphics and tween them
as I’ve said before, you guys should take a look at c.hearts RPG’s thread.
could you post a link to that thread, please?
Cerulean Hearts RPG
Later we had a different forum to discuss further ideas, but it was closed because the guy didn’t even reply.
Bombsledder, Nino and I were also part of the team tough
