DarrenReeder Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Hey! i want to make a text based/clicking browser game but i got no ideas for themes of the game...so anyone got any good ideas for a browser game that i could make? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper0167 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 That reminds me of the good old days making text games with Qbasic. LoL. But as for themes, maybe a dungeon, dragon, castle, save the princess theme. And no, not like mario, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeddyKiller Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Well, the best bet would be adventurous. So something along the lines of what Reaper said? You could start off with a basic idea of .. a castle. Then build it up and have a castle with a dungeon with a dragon guarding it and a princess saying "Oh save me" at the top. Or you can have a castle, with loads of dragons flying around it. A princess in a little hut being stollen by a horrible man called bill. No idea, but you may get the idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Well, the best bet would be adventurous. So something along the lines of what Reaper said? You could start off with a basic idea of .. a castle. Then build it up and have a castle with a dungeon with a dragon guarding it and a princess saying "Oh save me" at the top. Or you can have a castle, with loads of dragons flying around it. A princess in a little hut being stollen by a horrible man called bill. Did you make games for the Atari 2600? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeddyKiller Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 No.. Whats Atari 2600? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 No.. Whats Atari 2600? LOL. Google it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeddyKiller Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The joystick (L) The game pitfall looks rather interesting.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-H Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Text based games only really do well if either: A, You have an original idea and are the first to implement it. B, You steal someone elses idea, but do it better than the rest. And you must have active game staff and regular updates if you want to keep the players coming. Just don't make a mafia game, theres already about 30million to choose from and 99.999% of them are crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Text Edition. Badass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Just don't make a mafia game, theres already about 30million to choose from and 99.999% of them are crap. Only 99.999%? I would say 100% with no rounding. Text based games are extremely limited as 1.) They are harder on the server than other MMOs (The server processes the code, not the client.) 2.) Graphics can't compete. 3.) Requires more bandwidth. Now thats pretty bad and probably explains why there is no such thing as an entertaining text based game as of yet (To my opinion and many others). Now the question is, why the heck do so many people make them and all* fail miserably? 1.) People buy generic text based software and modify it a little to fit their preferences. 2.) People steal generic text based software and modify it a little to fit their preferences. 3.) PHP is the easiest programming language to learn and understand. * is defined by 99.99% of text based games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 2.) Graphics can't compete. Uh... I don't think people play text based games for the graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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