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Jackolantern wrote:

Baseball435 wrote:

hallsofvallhalla wrote:great! Welcome to the site.

thanks. And actually maybe you could help me. I downloaded the source code for the mmorpg game and I linked it to phpmyadmin but when I register Login and go to the main page a get all these errors on the different files on almost every file. Were these there when you sent the source out?

You should watch up to at least video 14 before writing any code. If you just downloaded the PHP code and tried to run it, every page will error out because your MySQL database is not set up. If you follow along with the videos (after watching it through once), it will guide you through setting up the db.

ok thanks. Have you tried making your own game?

I am working on one as we speak, although I am taking a bit of detour at the moment to learn JQuery and Javascript. Before this game, I got quite far in another game before realizing I was not happy with the game's design, so I scrapped it and have been using parts of the code in the new game.

I'm pretty sure videos 1-5 show you how to set up the database.

It was enough for me to smooth out some stuff (like making monsters repeatable, not passing the monster through the command bar, etc) like I put in the mod I linked to.

But you have to realise that you can't learn fast - because you have no teacher in the vast number of cases. Each new program is like climbing a mountain no one has ever climbed before - no one can teach you to climb a mountain no one has ever climbed before. All of us are facing off with our own mountains, so to speak. Sometimes some or many tricks we learn can be used on another mountain. But you can't learn how to make an entirely new program.

with the urban realms download I had problems with that too - the answers are in a thread in the urban realms forum. I think it was titled 'problems' or something. I wrote some posts in it to help as well.

Jackolantern wrote:I am working on one as we speak, although I am taking a bit of detour at the moment to learn JQuery and Javascript. Before this game, I got quite far in another game before realizing I was not happy with the game's design, so I scrapped it and have been using parts of the code in the new game.

ohh i see. What exactly is JQuery? Is it like JavaScript?

Callan S. wrote:I'm pretty sure videos 1-5 show you how to set up the database.

It was enough for me to smooth out some stuff (like making monsters repeatable, not passing the monster through the command bar, etc) like I put in the mod I linked to.

But you have to realise that you can't learn fast - because you have no teacher in the vast number of cases. Each new program is like climbing a mountain no one has ever climbed before - no one can teach you to climb a mountain no one has ever climbed before. All of us are facing off with our own mountains, so to speak. Sometimes some or many tricks we learn can be used on another mountain. But you can't learn how to make an entirely new program.

with the urban realms download I had problems with that too - the answers are in a thread in the urban realms forum. I think it was titled 'problems' or something. I wrote some posts in it to help as well.

ok ill check that out. And yeah its going to take a long time to make a game but I wanna make one so bad. Kinda like Forsanken Sanctum, not 2.0, that looks more complicated i just want to have one like 1.0

Baseball435 wrote:

Jackolantern wrote:I am working on one as we speak, although I am taking a bit of detour at the moment to learn JQuery and Javascript. Before this game, I got quite far in another game before realizing I was not happy with the game's design, so I scrapped it and have been using parts of the code in the new game.

ohh i see. What exactly is JQuery? Is it like JavaScript?

JQuery is an extremely popular library for Javascript that makes difficult Javascript tasks much easier. I saw a figure somewhere that it is now on 27% of the websites of Fortune 500 companies.

Jackolantern wrote:

Baseball435 wrote:

Jackolantern wrote:I am working on one as we speak, although I am taking a bit of detour at the moment to learn JQuery and Javascript. Before this game, I got quite far in another game before realizing I was not happy with the game's design, so I scrapped it and have been using parts of the code in the new game.

ohh i see. What exactly is JQuery? Is it like JavaScript?

JQuery is an extremely popular library for Javascript that makes difficult Javascript tasks much easier. I saw a figure somewhere that it is now on 27% of the websites of Fortune 500 companies.

oohhh i should probably consider learning that. Is Javascript easy though?

Without using a library, Javascript is actually quite difficult; much harder than PHP. Many (possibly even most) web developers actually don't fully understand it, and just use code snippets and freely available scripts customized for their purposes. But using JQuery or its main rival, Prototype, you don't have to learn about all the low-level annoyances that typically plague Javascript development, such as complex selector logic or cross-browser portability.

Jackolantern wrote:Without using a library, Javascript is actually quite difficult; much harder than PHP. Many (possibly even most) web developers actually don't fully understand it, and just use code snippets and freely available scripts customized for their purposes. But using JQuery or its main rival, Prototype, you don't have to learn about all the low-level annoyances that typically plague Javascript development, such as complex selector logic or cross-browser portability.

ohh, well idk if you have used this, know it, or are learning it but, is it harder, as hard, or less hard then C++? Because I know some of that.

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In my personal opinion, I believe C++ is harder then Javascript, as C/C++ is object oriented programming and Javascript is much more abstracted...I myself tried learning C/C++ and it gave me a headache. My game is being built entirely using Javascript in the Unity environment.