Making a browser-based multiplayer game

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    I am a complete noob that barely knows how to script. I am not asking details, just an overall opinion so I can decide how I should improve my skills.

    If I wanted to make a dumbed-down, simple version of a browser-based game...say, something painfully repetitive like RaceWarKingdoms (Please login to see this link.), can MMF2 successfully do it? If so, would I publish it as a Java Runtime eventually? Or should I just keep studying JavaScript? I'm unclear on how the back-end database of such a game even works. Is it probably PhP or something? (I realize I don't hardly know what I'm talking about, I am just trying to figure out which directions to focus). I love MMF2 and want to dedicate myself to learning it wholly, but I am incredibly interested in making derpy little browser-based games (nothing serious, just for fun), so being able to make some simple game like RWK would motivate me to learn all I needed to learn.

    I appreciate all feedback. I am aware that I am a complete noob.

    Thanks for your time,
    Sataron

    You can make a online multiplayer game with MMF2, and a simple one should be somewhat easy to make. However, I wouldn't publish it using the java runtime, due to a Please login to see this link. in java (not javascript, java, there is a big difference). However, you could use the flash runtime, since that also allows you to make browser-based games. If you don't already have MMF2, I suggest you try the Please login to see this link.. You won't really be able to make online multiplayer games in the demo of MMF2, but you will be able to start learning how to use MMF2 for making other types of games, which is important to learn before making online multiplayer games in MMF2.

    My Please login to see this link. (which I actually use), my Please login to see this link. (which I mostly don't use), and my Please login to see this link. (which I don't use anymore pretty much at all really). If there are awards for "'highest number of long forum posts", then I'd have probably won at least 1 by now. XD

    Yes, I suggest the Flash runtime. The Java runtime is not used by a lot of people, there is a higher risk of getting into a bug.
    And Flash is everywhere, very fast and reliable.

    Francois
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    I have been using the demo for MMF2 Standard. I was reading about the ExtensionView and how there are all of these extensions that can help me in various ways. Are there any tutorials that you know of that teach anything regarding networking with flash? I spent all evening searching around the web but could find little information on this, especially a tutorial specifically with MMF2 to do so.

    Worst case, I'll just figure it out eventually, but any direction would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time and help!

    You can't use extensions that aren't included with MMF2 in the demo version of MMF2, which are kinda needed to make online multiplayer games. To make online multiplyer games in MMF2, you should use Please login to see this link.. There are also the Moo extensions (which can be used in the demo, even though they are technically pointless (you can't build games/applications in the demo version of MMF2, which means you can't properly test any online multiplayer games you make, which ruins the point)), but those aren't updated/supported by the developers who made them anymore, so I would advise against using them. Please login to see this link. are a great place to start when it comes to learning lacewing. Lacewing is actually pretty easy to use once you get used to it. If you look at the first of those video tutorials, a chat room is actually very easy to make. If you look at the second, you will see that making movement is pretty easy to make as well. I haven't seen the third video yet, but I'm guessing that it isn't particularly hard either.

    Edit: I forgot to mention, the Moo extensions aren't compatible with flash. Lacewing, on the other hand, is compatible with flash.

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