Making Text Based Game Mafia

[expert_winxp]

Hello Everyone, First off I would like to introduce myself...My name is Adel .im 20 years old and I a freelance computer tech...I have decided to make my own Online Text-Based Browser Game..
and me noticed the lack of PHP related tutorials, and more so towards the game side and wants from this value forum and value members to make tutorial for making text based game engine thats will help many peoples
and thats help me to start my onw text based game such mafia games
and me have good game plane for thats

please can anyone make tutorial for making text based game ??

Thanks alot :
adel

[Sakar]

If you follow the tutorials on this site you have a text based web game right there. Then you'd just modify it to match your game's style.

[Last Known Hero]

Hello Adel, it's nice to have you here.

If you surf the site some more I think that you might find some useful sections on what you are looking for.

[hallsofvallhalla]

i have never really played a mafia game so I am not sure how they work. Give me some time to see how they are played and I will try to incorperate the game play into our current tutorial.

[expert_winxp]

Thats Any Game Mafia Must Have Thats And Thats my suugestion for good game to make thats in it

Front End Plan

The front end is what the users will see, and this is where we will start with the plan and coding.

* News:
o The news section will be displayed on the index page and will display the most recent website news
o Also, there will be an option to view archived news
* Pages
o Pages can be anything from about the game to FAQs
o SEO Friendly with dynamic titles, meta tags and content
* Mafia Game
o The main attraction to the site will have multiple features including but not limited to:
+ User can choose what city to live in
+ Multiple Worlds
+ Missions
+ Jobs
+ Mob Families
+ Crimes
+ Store (To purchase items from you so you make money!)
+ Chatroom
+ More to come as we develop and you provide suggestions!
* Forums
o Give the ability to users whom do not get the chance to play together the option to talk through


Back End Plan

The back end is where the administrator and staff can control everything that happens in the game.

* News:
o Staff can post news about the game (New updates, items, etc)
* Newsletter
o Staff will have the option to send out newsletters to their members
o Send out automatic emails after 15 day of inactivity
* Pages
o Staff will have the ability to create, edit or delete any page in their website
* Mafia Game
o Create, Edit, Delete Cities
o Create, Edit, Delete Missions
o Create, Edit, Delete Jobs
o Create, Edit, Delete Crimes
o Add, Edit, Delete Items from the store
o Add, Edit, Delete, Search for any user
* Forums
o Add, Edit, Delete A Category
o Add, Edit, Delete A Board
* Ranks
o Create groups and set permissions

[expert_winxp]

where are you mr admin

are you see this post

please reply to me

[hallsofvallhalla]

i see it and you will have to give me some time. I am extremely busy. I have the mmorpg tutorials, then I have the RPG engine Tutorials, then I have this website, then I have 2 of my own games I am working on. I will do my best to add your ideas into the tutorials to help you.

[expert_winxp]

please admin can u add my email address now if u dont mind
expert_winxp@yahoo.com

[hallsofvallhalla]

add it to messenger? Sure but I am not on all the time. I will message you next when I am on.

[Torniquet]

if you look under the MMO browser section watch the video, it will give you a nice insite on where to start, 90% of everything you see on all mafia games (and similar ones) are constructed the same way. it is the presentation and various additional features.

If you look at facebook mafia games (mobwars, mafiawars, mobsters, mobsters 2) and then look at some of the other titles that facebook offers (dragonwars, piratewars, carwars *might be racewars* vampire wars, the list goes on) they are ALL constructed the same way, but each one has a different scope on the way things are presented, named and portrayed.

they all have missions, they all have properties to bring you income, they all have the ability to fight other users. It is just different companies name things differently to minimise the illusion of a direct copy.

you then have the more versitile (i think thats the right word to use) browser games. such as hobowars, trentonmade, cockfights, and plenty plenty more. they are all the same fundimental structure as the above facebook versions. but they have unique features, such as drug pushing, fighting tournements, gangs etc.

the initial structure is the same for each of the text based browser based games. Halls' tutorials in the MMO section of this forum shows you exactly how to get started. you just have to develope and learn from there, rather than getting Halls or any body else to spoon feed you your game.

learn from the many tutorials on this site and learn to do things by yourself. WHEN you have questions then post them. if code isnt working how it is ment to, post the code and ask others if they can see why it isnt working and get them to point you in the right direction then learn from the mistake you made.

You have your game layout. thats the goal your working towards. it wont happen in a week. it will take months to do. so be prepared to get stuck, to work your ass off, and most of all prepare to WAIT for an answer rather than being impatient and calling attention when people either dont know the answer to help or have got other things to do.

all the tools to get started are right here. look for them and get started.

all the best.