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MUD Contemplation

 
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MUD Contemplation
jamesb
post 16 Sep, 2008 - 08:31 AM
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Hello all!

I ran a quick google and a quick DIC search and came up with very little on making MUD's. I'll search more when there isn't an evil firewall but I came up with a couple observations.

I know everyone says you should code in what you are the most comfortable with. I was thinking about writting a MUD in C++ and realized that anything of a decent size would make my head explode. Wouldn't a database & php, or some other scripting language, be immensely easier??
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post 16 Sep, 2008 - 08:59 AM
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Are you planning on building a MUD, or a PBBG? They are two different things. For a PBBG, web languages rule the game - you don't see much developed in C++. On the other side of the fence, I have never heard of a PHP MUD (typically the things that refer to themselves as PHP MUDs are actually PBBG's).
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jamesb
post 16 Sep, 2008 - 10:36 AM
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Are you planning on building a MUD, or a PBBG? They are two different things. For a PBBG, web languages rule the game - you don't see much developed in C++. On the other side of the fence, I have never heard of a PHP MUD (typically the things that refer to themselves as PHP MUDs are actually PBBG's).


PBBG, eh? Never heard of em but a quick Google fixed that. I remember when I was using 3 different OS's behind 2 different firewalls. That painful experience makes me say that a MUD would be better... Though its surprising how many companies block websites but not the ftp ports!

I guess I will probably be heading to the PBBG way of things.

Thanks. smile.gif

BTW, its blocked, but hope your browser based games site is doing well.
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I think PBBG (browser MUDs) are actually easier to write than a C++ system. You have to network in a C++ system and that might be hard to do right.
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Trogdor
post 22 Sep, 2008 - 09:34 AM
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Actualy, writing the backend of any networked stuff for any not-time critical application in something as complicated as C++ is, imo, maddness.
Php i would say, is the easy and obvious choice.
You can allways chose to let is communicate not directly though webpages to the enduser, but through a separate interface, that can be built in anything you like. (like runescape for example does)
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