How to Make a Game on the Internet
The game industry is growing by leaps and bounds today. One of the best places to find games is on the Internet---and many of those games are free. But if you have an idea for a game and you simply cannot find it on the Internet, perhaps you'd like to make that game yourself. It is possible, and it is not that difficult, but it does require some knowledge of computer programming.
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Decide what sort of game you want to make. Most Internet-based games are turn-based, which means people interact with the game on a daily basis, and each night a program runs that updates the game and all the players and parts of the game. You need to decide what actions the players will have each day, and what will happen on the nightly update.
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Determine what server language you will use for the game. You will need some sort of program running on the web server that will process all the requests and updates for the game. Common examples of this sort of language are php and ASP. You must ensure that your web server/host will support the language you are going to use.
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Determine what database you will use for your game. If your game does not store data about the players and actions in the game, it will be useless. Therefore, you need to store information in some sort of database that can be accessed through the web so people can view information from the database on web pages.
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Based on your plan and ideas, create the database to hold the information your game needs. This may change as you continue making the game, but create some part of the database to start building the game.
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Create the web pages and your website to interact with the database. This will be the interface that the players of your game will see, so take time to make it easy to use and easy to understand.
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Create the server daily update processing program that will update your game. You can schedule this process to run once a day to update your game.
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Test all parts of your game to be sure they work, then start advertising and announce your game to the Internet.
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Tips & Warnings
For no cost, you can use the php programming language and mySql for a database.
