Wondering if this would be a good idea...

[KunoNoOni]

So there I was pondering nothing and I had an idea, not that it was an original idea, but an idea nonetheless. I thought about creating a web-based MUD (Multi-User Dungeon). For those that are not familiar with MUDs, they are text-based rpgs. You type commands to do things, like n to walk north. They've been around for quite sometime and back in the hayday they were very popular. Some people even flunked out of college because of them.

Anyways, I thought about created one for the web. but rather than typing all your commands you'd click links.Being that its going to be on the web I wanted to use PHP/MySQL. As far as the SQL database would go, I wanted to do something like this. I would have a table with a row named 0-10, and 10 columns named 0-10. it would look something like this.

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   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Each field would contain the id from a different database that would contain the info about the current location.

This is the part I'm wondering about. If I had a lot of players would that cause too much server traffic?


-KunoNoOni

[hallsofvallhalla]

hehe have you watched the videos to or downloaded forsaken sanctum1.0? The game I just released. It works exactly like that but has 45 x 45 around 2000 squares per zone and can hold unlimited amount of zones. You could actually got around 100 x 100, 10,000 possible locations per zone with a good server.

Int he videos and source i show you how to manage this and not make a load on the DB. I had around 300 players, most were concurrent because it was beta and all ran fine.

[KunoNoOni]

lol, I guess great minds think alike! but seriously no I haven't seen the videos yet, and I stress yet but cause I love watching tutorial videos. Its how I learn so much

10,000 huh... good to know, thats for the info


-KunoNoOni

[hallsofvallhalla]

these videos btw

http://indie-resource.com/forums/viewto ... =67&t=1826

[Jackolantern]

And there are many, many other games that are just like this. Halls' Forsaken Sanctum is a bit different, since it uses a Javascript map for movement, but there are many browser-based MUDs just like you explained. They are called "PBBGs" for Persistent Browser-Based Games.

[hallsofvallhalla]

actually 1.0 uses only css and html. This was before I got into Javascript

[Jackolantern]

Ohh, ok, so it is like the tutorial video game then?

[KunoNoOni]

Never heard of PBBGs. Will have to check them out.


-KunoNoOni

[hallsofvallhalla]

yeah the new one i just released. my newer games use Javascript though

[KunoNoOni]

The problem I have with javascript is that the user can see it and if there good enough they can change what is on the page with it. Kinda like SQL injection.


-KunoNoOni