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[noud17]

Hello i am Noud17

I got a few questions.
I will make with a team of 20 people a MMORPG.
I do the server.
My question what is better to make first the game or the server and client.
How can i make a client and server
What is a good 3D engine

Greetings from noud17

[starstutter]

I will make with a team of 20 people a MMORPG.

Please read this:
http://www.devmaster.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11656
and
http://www.devmaster.net/forums/announcement.php?f=30&a=2

For more info, please read my signature.

[alphadog]

I will make with a team of 20 people a MMORPG.


What are the combined available skills of those 20 people? Has anyone on this team ever built a game, much less a MMORPG?

[starstutter]

You know I really have to wonder if what we say to these new members has any gravity at all. For all we know all the advice we give is cancelled out by the encouraging kids on GameDev... and yes, I said kids.

But forgetting that for a moment, learn basic C++, try to program pong in directX/OpenGL and once you realize the obnoxious difficulty of just doing those few things, you might have a different opinion about making an MMO

[fireside]

How can i make a client and server

You can't. If you could you wouldn't need to ask that question, so you'll have to find an engine that has a client server built in. I would recommend trying a free engine like Panda3d to start out with. That way you will know how much work is involved without spending money and wasting it. Panda3d has a client server network built in so it could be used as an MMO and Disney has used it for two MMO's. You should definitley write the game first. You will need Ai to take over when people quit, etc, and you can add multiplayer onto that after wards. Start out very simple, like starstutter said with a game of pong, then two player pong, then the little round guy that eats things and gets chased by ghosts. If 3d is too much to start out, try pygame and start with 2d.

You could also look at realmforge, which is free, but really, start out with something free because there are hundreds of people with these expensive engines on their hard disks that aren't doing anything. If you really already have some programming experience in c++, you could also start out with Ogre and find a client server networking engine later.

and yes, I said kids.

Am I the kid? If I am, thanks for the compliment.