Are there any programms or templates for a text based RPG such as
Criminal City - http://64.34.169.33/~ccdedic/index.php
or
Torn City - http://www.torncity.com

these game both use MySQL and PHP, i believe there is a template for it. If any one knows anything, i would be very thankful.

this is asked too many times:

you won't find a bugfree script for this


it will never be popular


if anyone has one, they won't give it to you

you won't find a bugfree script for this

don't want bug free

it will never be popular

don't want popularity want skills and something for me and my friends to mess with

if anyone has one, they won't give it to you

if this is true why are the games so similar, there has to be a basis or a platform that they work from cause none of them start from scratch

Youd be surprised how many people just copy code from another website into their own games.

Besides, if you have a good knowledge of HTML a little CSS, PHP, and SQL, make your own with your own imagination.

I don't know how to take the coding from other sites. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it. I'm just looking for a template or something to work from. I just want a base i can expand on.

um right click+view source to see the source code and for PHP(if its a secure site) and mysql you would have to have axcess to the files on the server.
the only thing i can think of would be Black Nova Traders you can download its source code and try and work with that. Thats all i can think of:confused:.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blacknova
Its is a space exploration game but the basic source code is there.:D

EDIT="i forgot View Source is used in IE browsers for fire fox it view page source or something like that."

um right click+view source to see the source code and for PHP(if its a secure site)

No, viewing the HTML source won't show you the game's sourcecode, just the HTML page the PHP code has produced.

go to google and search mc codes

it has all the code and sql scripts to import to the server

this is basically like most text based games just a good place to start from

go to google and search mc codes

it has all the code and sql scripts to import to the server

this is basically like most text based games just a good place to start from

Wow. Quite a necro-post you got there, eh?

I actually have tutorials I made to create a Text-Based Game using php/mysql/xhtml/html/css--

I'm selling it for 80$ with free support. Its around 8+ hours of video tutorials, but it covers just about everything you want to know about creating one from start to finish :). If you want me to hook you up contact me on my forums.

http://tempostudios.com/forums/

Just pm me on there that way i can see you want to talk about it :)

-Tutorial explains how to do just about all the basic fundamentals of creating a text-based game its a video Tutorial :) So no reading involved just follow the video :) I hope this can be a possibility for you I created them for another client and he enjoyed em. It also comes with the after tutorial code, meaning all the code used in the tutorial is available to you in a ready to go source file :).

Have a nice day!

-Frank

Use this:
http://www.chipmunk-scripts.com/page.php?ID=16

It's a very basic browser-based game, an example/framework. You can build off of that, like I did with my first browser-based game Distorted Horizon back in 2004. Last I checked (when a friend was trying to use it), their 2.2 version was missing a file, so you can either use version 2.0 or use 2.2 with the missing file copied from 2.0

Great to learn from. I started learning with that script a few years ago when I was first starting to learn PHP/MySQL, and I now have a new, successful browser-based MMORPG, Seeds of Time Online (http://www.seedsoftime.net) (which was built from scratch, by the way).

If you have questions, send me a private message in my game or post on the forums. You can try sending me a private message on OnRPG.com, but I barely ever sign onto these forums so I probably won't respond anytime soon.