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No problem Z :) I work 6 12s, and I work 45 minutes from my house so I have very little time between work, commuting, and sleep to get on here or work on my games, but when I can, I always get back to people :)

Thank you so much for your interest, but I am not comfortable taking pre-orders until the game is more developed, but I will keep you posted on the progress!

Yes, Grant has bought the rights to the game, it is completely his now, I no longer have any involvement in it, nor any rights to redistribute or use the name or anything, its all him :)

Zettieee: I haven't vanished, as I've stated before I work 6 12s as a CNC machinist so my time is very limited, and I didn't respond to your inquiry because I was already negotiating a deal with Grant, and he has now bought the rights.

Grant is now the owner of GRPG, I am no longer involved in the project, all rights belong to him :) I am making a new game engine http://www.endlessplains.com, it is nowhere near completed but it is in development. Unfortunately I work 6 12s at my "real" job, so I only have an hour or so to work on the engine before and after work, and then on Sundays I devote 5 or 6 hours to it. I will keep you all posted on the progress of this new engine, I am very excited about it and will offer it for sale at a discounted price for members of the makewebgames.iomunity when it goes up for sale. It will have a map editor, creature editor, quest editor, item editor etc. that will all be managed from the browser, so you will be able to make an entire tile based PBBMMORPG in whatever theme you want, be it medieval, space, or whatever, all from your browser without any coding experience required. Good luck to Grant with GRPG, hope it goes well for you!

@someone: Thanks I will look into that! @newttster: Thanks I appreciate it! @z: "y i no check old email" (lol) is because I got a new one that sounds better and I no longer received inquiries about GRPG for 5 months or so straight and stopped checking my old one. If I start work on GRPG again I will get in touch with you for sure, but for now my new game is my priority. If you are still interested in buying the rights to GRPG outright, let me know and I'll cut you a damn good deal :)

PHP, Javascript (AJAX for character movement on the map without a complete refresh of page, only a refresh of the map tiles), MySQL I haven't messed with PHP in a few years, nor learned anything about HTML 5 at all yet, as I've just been focused on my day job, and I'll probably be coming here (since this seems like quite a friendly and helpful group of people) as well posting in other forums for help with preventing MySQL injection vulnerabilities etc. What sort of things would HTML 5 be handy for, in the case of a game like this? What sort of tricks and slick new features does HTML 5 offer?

@strangeeyes, no it doesn't, it merely confirms I'm considering making it open source freeware but haven't decided yet. @aventro good idea, I am deciding between reworking this project, or finishing a tile-based PBBG engine that i started a few years back, something akin to games such as fallen sword if you are familiar with it. I got the inventory / equipment system in place, a quest system, combat system, creature system and map editor with lots of features, everything of course grabbed dynamically from a mysql database, nothing hard coded so that a front end could be written that would allow for someone with no coding experience whatsoever to add an entirely different tile set for the map, add creature images, and create new mobs, new maps, new items and quests with specified requirements to be met in order to complete the quest (e.g. find x number of a certain item, kill x number of specific mob etc.) and the quests would be triggered by visiting certain npcs on the map. This would allow for anyone with no programming experience to completely change even the entire setting from medieval times to outer space etc. Would anyone be interested in the aforementioned new PBBG engine? I feel like the GRPG style of PBBG is overplayed now and kind of want to try a different style of game... Just drop me a line via e-mail or with a reply to this post as to which engine you would rather see me work on. Thanks! [email protected]

I know this is a very old post, but if anyone is still interested in The GRPG, I am just now getting back into coding, and this is Brandon Werner aka publius, the original creator. I no longer use [email protected], I know use [email protected] however I still have access to the [email protected] account, if anyone wants me to prove I am in fact the original creator. I am currently trying to decide whether to open source this or not, but first I want to get a feel for the interest in the game. I may end up updating all the security problems and selling it for $20 or so and then getting a domain and site for the game again, but with better support from myself and a forum for community support. I am getting nostalgic lately remembering when I used to develop things for the web (I'm a CNC machinist now) and would like to use scripting as my past time, as I always enjoyed that and it never felt like work, anyway if anyone is still interested in this project please let me know :)

Thanks I appreciate it :) And yeah, I'm not worried about people getting it for free, I abandoned the project and hold no ill will towards people who got it for free whatsoever, I would just like to get back into scripting again and seeing as how it appears that there is still a small amount of interest in it, I figured it would be fun to start working on this again :)

Also I can see that people have gone through and done some massive security fixing on it, does anyone who has a solid copy with that script mind sending me the updated version? You can send it to the [email protected] address that I used to use, that way you know you are sending it to the original creator, not someone who is wanting a pirated copy of the script, as I still have access to that e-mail account, I just no longer use it as my primary. I'd like to get this project started up again, and either open source it with the updated bug fixes, or at least sell a better secured version of the game for like $20 and start supporting it again. I'll pay whoever did security fixes on it for their effort if so. Thanks :)

Hello everyone, my name is Brandon Werner and I'm the original creator of the GRPG framework. I created it when I was a sophomore in high school as a way of learning PHP and making a little money on the side, after a year or two the engine's popularity dropped quite a bit, and because I didn't encrypt any of it and left it completely open for customization, it ended up getting uploaded to a bunch of pirating sites and after no sales for 6 months and a lack of interest, I stopped renewing the domain name and working on the game. After high school I became a CNC machinist for a company that makes parts for Boeing, and am now a lead over a small number of employees in the work center of the shop that makes wing ribs for the 787. I was talking to some of my employees today about how I used to be a web developer and I was searching google for The GRPG related posts and found this forum, and was just curious if people were still using my engine! I'm surprised to see that it appears to still be actively used, and was just wondering if I could be of any assistance, I am aware it isn't the best coded game, and it has some security related vulnerablities for sure, as this was my first huge PHP project, but I'm interested in getting back into my first passion (programming / scripting) and figured here was as good a place to start as any. Anyway, hit me up at [email protected] (I no longer use the [email protected] address) or reply to this thread if you are still using GRPG or are interested in using it, I'd like to see what has become of my high school project and any games that currently run my framework, call it nostalgia :P