a-guitarist Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Well, I think doing a forum for that on the FL webpage would go against the principle of these forums. The fact is this: FL's forums are here to improve community of the game, not other games. I think you're lucky you got this much info from everyone and some of the staff. But I think a lot of this stuff is something you're going to have to learn on your own, or at least not here with this community. I'm not trying to be mean, so please don't take it that way at all. All I'm saying is why should the staff here at FL help you possibly take away some of their players? If you're really interested in starting your own mud, the forums at the Mud Connector and Top Mud Sites can help a lot, check them out. You can find links to the pages through the voting links up in the corner of this page. a-g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 All the MUD resource sites, TMC, TMS, MudMagic, having coding forums and places to advertise for staff when you're ready, as A-G said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 i dont take it that way, i completely understand. i will try to find TMS and TMC, although i couldnt find those forums on mudmagic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 http://www.mudconnect.com/ http://www.topmudsites.com/ http://www.frostmud.com/ http://frostmud.dyndns.org/files/WinROM-deriv-exe.zip http://www.mageslair.net/builder/ http://www.mudmagic.com/codes/ http://www.dawnoftime.org/ so, here is a list of links i have gathered that may be helpful.if you have anything helpful you can add, feel free to tell me. also, i could use a list of books that i should get. once i have the sites/books/info i need, i will drop this subject, and let everyone get on with their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfeman Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 And you got to remember. Code does exactly what you tell it to do. So if you screw up one thing' date=' the program is doing what it was told to do, thus doing the right thing, you were just wrong. [/quote'] That reminds me of an epiphany I had a few years ago. At the time, I had decided I was going to be a computer programmer. I had decided this back when I was in high school. Anyway, I was sitting in the computer lab at school, looking at the program I'd written as per the assignment. I was trying to figure out why it wasn't working the way it was supposed to be. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a voice in my head said something that changed everything. In the most casual voice I've ever heard in my life, it said, 'You know, this isn't going to be any better when they pay you for it.' That was the last day that I ever had any intentions of writing programs as anything other than a passing hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I for one love building..I have done so for FL as well as grannym4n's mud..Make sure you find people willing to stick around and help, cause it takes ALOT of time to get a mud up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannym4n Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Out of your links your best bet would be MudMagic. They are invaluable as a community of helpful people when you have questions. And the amount of resources and stock for Diku.Merc.ROM games is almost unlimited(though they can be much harder to get going than a WIN game). *Could try an out-of-the-box SMAUG code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpnow Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Or he could use the ROM Windows port I pm'd him a link to, best of both worlds. SMAUG is evil, don't go that way...everything is WAY too easy, you will become dependant. You can make spells and classes without coding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarduarkar Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 i love that pic' date=' its my desktop now[/quote'] Lol, I always found Dale's icon a little disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannym4n Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 SMAUG is evil' date=' don't go that way...everything is WAY too easy, you will become dependant. You can make spells and classes without coding.[/quote'] Uh...yea. Because he's totally a pro at everything mud-like, or did I miss the entire point of this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpnow Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Ya, but then you never learn to code cuz smaug is so easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannym4n Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Yea..... So a newbie coder(by newbie I mean NO experience), and being age 13, should start off with ROM right out of the gate? Sorry Warp, you're wrong on this one. He's not going to learn if he's overwhelmed by something he can't conquer. You're pretty much saying he should do something in a way that the direct opposite of any 'conquering' in all of history. Like...we should land on Mars before the Moon, America should take on the Middle East and China before it goes for Iraq, ect. That's not how I learn.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Grannym4n learns on the moon, by George! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfeman Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Lol' date=' I always found Dale's icon a little disturbing.[/quote'] It's like a train wreck, you don't want to stare but you can't look away. Also, as per grannym4ns comment, I would just like to point out that Iraq is smack dab in the center of the Middle East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannym4n Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I know that. I'd also like to point out we're currently not at war with Iran, Saudia Arabia, Turkey, Quatar, Sweden, Kuwait, Omar?, ect. *smirk* My geography skills; they're awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magick Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Oman. Syria, Lebenon, Jordan, Yemen, UAE.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpnow Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 The problem is, Smaug doesn't make a very good building block...its totally unrelated to the way every other codebase works. It has its only little order which is pretty different from every other codebase, which uses C or C++, this one encourages you just to use their little "system" to make things. My reccomendations stays solid, get the ROM windows port, get some snippets...toy with them until tey work, read the snippets through...start changing them...do this ALOT until you write your own... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 anyone know how to install ms dos? i found someone who knows how to code, and is helpin me, but i dont have a ms dos client.. thingy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 why dont it show my new profile pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpnow Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Dos? hrm...there are codes which run on dos? Never installed dos, myself... Not related at all, but if you need to run a Linux Program on windows, Red Hat has a thing called Cygwin which a shell login for windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 hrm, im starting from scratch now, should i use the command prompt, or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I have the code, but nothing to do with it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantangel Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Command replaced DOS I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 hrm...... i have 3 general programming friends, and a few coding friends, so ill have them teach me about the computer and coding and junk before i attempt this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghrialton Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 i am 13' date=' and i want some coding experience, as i plan on creating games/working on computers, and this will be both a fun experience, and something i MAY be able to add to my resume.[/quote'] A good start to programming might be either the INFORM or TADS languages, used to write text-based games. Both are object-oriented, and fairly easy to learn, and can be quite powerful for the purpose of making games. rec.arts.int.fiction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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