Dayo Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 To day whils walking down the street I had a really random idea for a game, it's basically a chat box where you type commands to play I.e. -attack dayo with sword -travelto London -equip sword -top10 attackers -stats dayo Etc... May just throw this together and see what's its like Quote
Dayo Posted August 16, 2013 Author Posted August 16, 2013 Yea could be done in irc will have to look I to that Quote
rockwood Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Monthly Most Active Player on random basis with attached activates Edited August 17, 2013 by rockwood Quote
Seker Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 It's not all that random, if you really look at it, and definitely not a waste. It's basically a throwback to old school dungeon crawlers which, as some don't want to admit or fail to realize, is basically what modern text games evolved from. Chat room dorkiness started the mafia craze. I like it. It's very... Retro. If you actually decide to do something like this, I'd be happy to lend a hand. Quote
Script47 Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 such waste idea How so? Do try and be more constructive when giving feedback. Quote
Alan Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 I started implementing commands in chat in a project here 4+ years ago; both chat and irc were hooked in the project in question and it did help a great deal especially from a staff point of view. As to a game itself, I briefly looked at it purely from an IRC point of view, but hit a few minor stumbling blocks. Saying that, it can work remarkably well. A recent AJAX backed chat script for the venerable McCodes I developed for somebody here recently had a rudimentary command dispatcher that could easily be extended to handle this type of concept. How you make it an interesting side-game that holds the players attention I'd be interested to see - I've long thought that those of us who hang around in IRC for whatever reason could enjoy this as a sideline. Quote
Dayo Posted August 20, 2013 Author Posted August 20, 2013 Just a small update, ive made the framework (Not used IRC as i wanted to build a chat system from the ground up as ive never fully coded one all by myself :P) and its all tested, currently you can login/register. It is modular so if i want to add a different command its only a matter of adding a file, it also used PDO felt it was about time to switch over from mysql_* been putting it of for a while lol Quote
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