Rah33m

Hi, I am a php programmer and i want to create a game in php. I have made only 1 game in php it was a text based mafia game. Does anybody got any ideas on a different type of game to make that would earn revenue? and people would enjoy.

Khanstruct

...yes, I do. And, seeing as how we most likely won't be going into web-based games, I may be willing to share it with you. Assuming I get 10% of profits when you're celebrated as a game developing genius. 2

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ncyphe

The only way I could see you making money off of a PHP based game would be through ads.

In such, so far the most profitable web based games nowdays is the text based civilization games (name whatever genre, there has been one)

I suggest starting off with a nice sim city text based, online competition between players. Learn from that what players liked, and then ultimately reach for the stars with what you had learnt.

When designing for a large MP audience, it's best to start small, which you have, and work up, which you are. Just don't overshoot it, or you're going to screw up.


I've designed countless maps in Vlave's Hammer editor, but I only finished one. All the rest, I got too cought up in, "oh I could do this, and I could do that," ultimately makeing the map too large and impossible to fully link together. (imagin 2 grand halls leading out for 5000 units, after spending hours working on them, then suddenly having to figure out a way to link the ends of the halls back together with as little drect link as possible. It becomes hard)

Also, try to keep it as turnbased or ticket based as possible, as real-time in PHP is a nightmare.

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firesnowball

Ok, do something completly ORIGINAL. Make something that no one would think of making, mabey something like that new game thats coming out, spore. But make it your own. (by the way, PM me when it comes out, I like ORIGINAL text baced games.)

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