I found this site last night after doing a google search for "how to create a browser mmo"....then clicked one of your youtube videos. So far I have downloaded the MMO tuts 1-20 but have been flicking backwards and forwards through them as not everything is relevant to what I am wanting to do, your new RTS tutorials are the ones that really interest me, although I am finding the MMO ones usefull and I love your detailed descriptions of what the code is doing.
I have been starring at PHP code for over 5 years now after I built my first website, but most of what I do is just follow mod instructions of copy and paste segments of code around the place, and until recently I have tried to avoid mysql as much as possible apart from actually creating databases through cpanel.
Apart from playing games as a kid, and dabling in a litle Amstrad basic, I didn't really do anything on the creative side until I started modding the Sims2 game 6 years ago, from there I opened my own sims 2 site (still going strong) then discovered browser MMORTS, namely in the form of Desert Operations.....I later became the Community Manager for Desert Operations for the UK and US until I had a falling out with them over their policies and methods.
My Idea is to create a game similar to desert operations, but have it based purely around the AIrforce, as opposed to all branches of the military......it is a daunting prospect, and I am not even sure I will be caple of creating what I want, but I am going to give it a shot. I have the Graphics side covered, 3D and 2D as that is the kind of thing I do and I am here to learn the programming side of things, which I have already found is helping me understand my site coding as well as game coding.
Happy to be here, think I may stick around as you guys have so much to offer and I am looking forward to the rest of the RTS tutorial videos
VampCat
