Project Planning

Here is another tutorial.

I'm going to walk you basically step by step on writing a Browser based games (PBBG - Persistent Browser Based Games) . First thing we need to decide is what genre we're going to create.

Here are a few different genres:
RPG
Strategy
Action
Adventure (pretty much coupled with Action I'd say)
Space
Virtual Pet


These all have their successors.
RPG has the mafia game scripts. If you Google PHP Mafia game you're bound to find some of the bigger ones.

Strategy - has tribalwars (www.tribalwars.net)
Action/Adventure - Not too sure what the successor of this genre is.
Space - Can't remember the name right now
Virtual Pet - Neopets, and other big sites as well.

Well I'm going to choose [b]Space Strategy[/b] for the game.

[b]Flourish your game plots[/b]
This is an important step. In order for people to enjoy playing your game... you need to have a point to it. Don't just throw up a home page saying click here to Register. That's boring!

I won't spend as much time giving the game I will write as much meaning as some of you would... this is all for demonstration purposes on how easy it is to write games in PHP using OOP!

I will try and write my tutorials in such a way that you can use or modify the code to work with any genre.

That's it for this tutorial though! Before you carry on try coming up with some ideas for your game, write down a purpose, etc. etc.