Virtual online world creation...?

Question

Say I wanted to create a virtual online world like neopets, gaia, etc. Where would I begin. I'm not asking for answers like 'go to a school' I mean really where would I begin? I already have down graphic design and html. Whatelse do i need. I know I need a webhost and stuff like that. What would I begin to research online to do this? When I search 'creating virtual worlds' something along the lines of that, it comes up with a LIST of virtual worlds now how to make one. Anyone good in programming or webdesign can you point me in the right direction. I know this can take years too. I am fully aware of that. I just need to be put in the right direction of where to begin :)

Answer 1

Yes, it will take YEARS of work. (Game developers are programmers with very serious experience, and are paid 150k/year!)

Your very first problem is to decide WHICH game engine you are going to use.

Game engine????

A game engine is a piece of software that "motors" your game: it is the core of your system. You can write your own, but it will take you the rest of your life. There are many game engines available on the web (just google "game engines", or go to www.devmaster.net/engines.)

Choosing the engine is the hard part: get the wrong one, and you loose years of work! (I took Adobe Atmosphere a few years ago, worked three years on it, then Adobe discontinued it!!!)

Ogre seems to be a good one (and it is free...)

Once you have the engine, your work begins...

You have to buy/download many programs to design/develop your scenes to import them into the engine...

I won't go any further.

Choose your engine first. Call back later!

Answer 2

Well, if you have the HTML (and CSS and Javascript) down, then, I'd say good next steps would be to learn SQL (you Will need this), and PHP (there are other options here, but PHP is pretty standard).



A perennial favorite for both these as well as just about any other language having to do with web design, is w3schools.com:

For SQL

http://w3schools.com/sql/default.asp

and for PHP:

http://w3schools.com/php/default.asp

Answer 3

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