Hello, I am a 3d artist not a pogramer and i was wondering if their where any easy to use packages that i can use a framework/template for a mmorpg game?
I don’t have much knowledge of programming and i know making a mmorpg game is probably one of the hardest types of games to create but i want to…
Is their anyway i can use a rpg pack and somehow get it online?
Here are a few question
Are their any tutorials for making a multi player game but i could include a rpg pack instead to make it a multiplay rpg game?
Can i use free webshosting to host my mmorpg such as using a mysql database?
Do i need a server as well for my mmorpg? are their any free ones that I can use or do i have to use my own computer as a server?
I have used ratspell but it is to confusing to set up are their any other mmorpg packages like this?
Anyway I can create all the content for the game it is just the programming and the hosting it that i am stuck with?
other than ratspell there arent many I can think of, especially without programming experience. if you want to learn how to program though, I recommend going through this tutorial burgzergs hack slash tutorial. This way you can build your own rpg framework and then learn some networking from somewhere else.
Its great you have ideas and ambitions but with something this big, either team up with someone that knows programming or learn yourself.
I’ve just recently started to play around with making a very simple mmo, not sure if simple and mmo go together but I just want to learn unity and I’m very interested in SmartFoxServer (http://www.smartfoxserver.com/) so I thought why not give it a go. The downside with SmartFoxServer is that you have to do the programming yourself and server side is all done in Java (good for me, cause that’s what I do for a living) but it means client and server side code is done in two different languages.
At the moment I wouldn’t worry too much about hosting and live environment if you’re just starting out. I’m currently running SmartFoxServer locally talking to a MongoDB instance. This works for now and I will worry about deployment later.
I’m kind of in the opposite situation to you, I know how to do the programming but my graphics will consist of placeholders for now, free models and animation etc
My company will vouch for Zerano and his MMO Kit. We purchased his kit about 2 months ago and have recently started negotiation to license an engine developed by some of the original lead designers of Turbine (Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online), so we won’t be using the kit for long. However, it helped us establish a fully playable and persistent game environment for our game; it also help us do some rapid prototyping. He has plenty of tutorials that show you how to setup quest, NPCs, weapons, and such. It doesn’t have all the features of a standard MMORPG such as crafting, gathering of resources and such, but it has just about all the generic features; questing, talents, hotkeys, banks, stores… etc. If you can afford it, I’d definitely suggest you purchase it. For the basics, you don’t have to code much, as he’s included a slew of tools to help you easily write data to your SQL db from within the Unity editor. I hope that helps you out.
Did you use the MMO Kit with Unity 4? I’m interested in this kit.
I’m looking forward to your game I have been following your progress since my Torque 3D days.
