Starting A Game
Starting A GameHow to Plan a Game before starting to code it?First step: You need to decide in what language you will code it. Select php, jsp, asp.net or another programming language. In programming language selection, you need to decide related to your knowledge, your work friends knowledge and your budget. Budget is important on hosting side and ofcourse when you need external help. Hosting of php is the cheapest and asp.net is the most expensive in these three. For example if you choose to code in coldfusion then it is very expensive to buy a coldfusion server. Additionally, in the external helps, php is a very common language and many people knows it so the hourly prices are not much just about $10 - $30. In java and asp.net these are more professional languages and people number decreases so prices increase to $25 - $50. In unique language which not known by many people prices go upper than $100.Second step: You need to decide on the database type. This is very similar to first step. There are some options in this like Mysql, Postgresql, Access, Mssql, Oracle. In this part the ideas about the game important. If you think a worldwide game played by millions you need a very professional solution like oracle but if you want your game to be played by thousands at first stage than mysql or mssql is enough for you. Mssql has some advantages on mysql but mysql is free so if your budget is not much than you should choose mysql. We will prepare a deep article about database selection later.Third Step: Prepare the organization of the game. Write on your paper what items, which characters, which places, what enemies will place on your game with all of the properties of them like life, power, strength, price, etc.Fourth Step: Prepare the organization of the database related to organization of the game. Write and organize the database of your game on your paper. These paper organizations will change a bit but € of them will remain and will help you very much.Fifth Step: Graphics Organization takes place. Plan the graphics on your mind also if possible on the paper. Dont forget after you finish these organization steps you will finish the P of the game.Sixth Step: Find the people to work on your game. You need a database builder, 2 game coders and 1 graphic builder. Dont forget! You cannot build a game on your own and even if you build that period will be 5 times of a team. So build a team.Seventh Step: After this people will start their jobs and this game will get envolved by the time.Thanks for reading this article. All the steps in this article will be a deep article later, but the basic organization of a game especially a browser based game is like this. More articles explaining these steps more detailly will be published on http://www.developgames.net
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