03-24-2011, 05:45 PM
(03-23-2011, 05:28 PM)Gads Wrote: So many people never get around to doing what they actually want to do, so its great to hear from people like yourself. I've been wanting to design a game for a long long time and am just so happy that I've finally taken the leap and got stuck in. We've got so much work to do, my biggest worry is thinking we've taken on too much!! :-)
That's definitely true. I've been wanting to work on my game for probably over 5 years now but was daunted by the amount of work to do it all by myself including frontend and backend programming. Then almost 4 years ago someone told me about Travian and I played it for about 6 months along with about 40 other people I talked into playing and I started trying to figure out how they did things and realized they don't have a lot of backend stuff going on there.
So I found a login script I liked and got it set up then started from the first page and expanded out from there. It's been very slow, but it's really picked up this year as I got a roadmap laid out and started making ToDo lists for myself. I've got the entire design of the game in my head and most of it out on documents, so I usually just pick something and start coding on it. The design ends up changing some as I go along, but I think its usually for the better since I tend to overcomplicate ideas in my head and simplify/streamline them a bit once I start coding them.
The only thing I don't have completely laid out yet is combat, but I'm hoping to start getting the framework for that going in a few months.
Hatch
http://projectlibertine.blogspot.com