can any one help me out with making a browser based text game like criminalcountry.com. i've read some basic tutorials on php but how do i test what i make and how exactly are these games made.

So you're saying that you've read tutorials on PHP and they've never mentioned how to use it?!

Either you didnt get it pr its a really really crappy tutorial (its the first one)

Go to www.w3schools.com

try www.tizag.com