Castle Paradox

[Ravenshade]

*ducks multiple bricks*

Update: 240410 This thread is headed towards the Social Gaming aspect of the game maker rather than creating an MMO. This is what the author originally meant to do but didn't know how to say it.

No no, I'm already aware that at the moment, Orph anage doesn't have the capability to produce MMO's...I was disappointed by that fact but as I was doing my assignment I decided I was bored and wanted to try my look at annoying a lotta people on a mindless discussion.

I thought that it might be a good idea, if we could create an MMORPG for Orph anage, for the primary reason, it would raise our profile a heck of a lot. The only MMORPG out there for linux (2D wise) is at best The Mana World.

Wouldn't it be a good idea if Orph anage could get a game (closed source to start off with) running that people could interact with, it has multiple benefits such as, before downloading, they could try out the playability of games made in Orph anage. That and the web traffic CastleParadox would get... (think of the advertising revenue).

Any way, just thought I'd see what everyone here thinks as a test teh water kind of thing.
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[JSH357]

Get out

[Bob the Hamster]

Since you knew to duck the bricks in advance, i think you already knew how people were likely to feel about this post.

This question is actually already covered on the wiki: Can I turn my game into a mmorpg?

[TwinHamster]

What a strange way to spell custom

[TMC]

[Ravenshade]

@ James

Yes, the topic is partially covered in the wiki, I just wondered if there was actually any interest. MMO's. According to three dissertations that I have read (and I checked the references) MMO's are the future of gaming, since social gaming is on the way up.

I just felt that without the ability to play socially, OHRRPGCE might fall into oblivion and never truly see the light of day as a 2d game creation software platform. After all, keeping certain software as hobbyist or a small niche tends to be a huge killer when the original developer goes missing >_>;

Thanks to you however this hasn't happened so far.

@Cacti,

I have found this too but I didn't mean as platform dependent. In the Ubuntu repositories, the only serious MMORPG game I can play (on my netbook) is TMW and I long since lost interest in that game, just too much hassle.

I can't say I've actually found a decent 2D MMORPG though... except GaiaOnline.

Also, I mispoke when I said games, I meant more of the general feel of OHRRPGCE rather than particular games.
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[Bagne]

Way I see it, the OHR *is* social gaming in the sense that everyone here plays everyone else's games.
Social game-making I guess.

Also - were this to become an MMOOHRRPGCE project, the pronounciation would cause rioting in the streets.
... also, everyone would be working towards developing the the same game, and I don't think that's what people want. There's a few community projects, but generally people want to make their own games. (myself included)

I gotta admit though - all that OHR source code is pretty intimidating.
So if the OHR is short on developers (are we?), I can understand why.
I'd like to see that C++ build. I'll be happyx5 when the OHR starts running on my Mac OS.
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[Ravenshade]

That's a good point (mebbe I should rename this thread social gaming and orph anage). Creating games to share is probably something little thought about, we have shared art creation programs but nothing that can be interacted with after.

It would cause rioting, I agree. Till someone calls is Morphage. I also agree with the point that everyone would be making the same game genre, unless the mmo developed the ability to "plug-in" games and use them as side-stories, especially Kana-learning. (That's a genius program even if there are a few minor errors).

I believe Orpha nage is somewhat lacking on developers, but not enough to kill the project, thankfully there are enough people who believe in the project to keep it alive for another ten years I think.

Personally I think I'm hoping towards a Java build, the more I look at C++ the more I realize how platform dependent in can be. On the other hand, it should be easier to understand than freebasic. (tricky stuff...imho). Doesn't it run on mac already? I'm sure there's a windows emu tool like Wine for linux. (Hell convert to linux!)
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PS. It's mean to replace words just because you don't like them ¬_¬ moderators...

[The Wobbler]

[Bagne]

Hm. It looks like there's some FreeBasic compilers for Mac OS X out there.

I'm gonna give some of those a shot.
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[Bob the Hamster]

[TMC]

People have asked for networking or multiplayer many times, and at least once someone offered to code it. To which James said (4 years ago) "Go ahead and give it a shot. When I say I don't want it in the main trunk, I don't mean to discourage you from trying. " Well, the opinions of the dev team are gradually becoming less "conservative" with time. I could see the engine someday having some simple networking script commands allowing, say, online high score tables. But built-in online RPG capabilities is pretty absurd.

[Bob the Hamster]

[Bagne]

[Inferior Minion]