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JamesP
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Any one in here interested in Browser based MMOs like Travian?
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Best browser based game I played was fusion fall. It Used the Unity 3d game engine.
I understand Fusion Fall was a kids title. But seriosly for the cost of the game, the graphics are great. I would say IMO the art style is better then Warhammer. And how much did warhammer cost again? I rest my case.
Now don't get me wrong IGG does have some decent browser games. So does Gpotatoe.
The limit to browser based games right now is bandwidth, but considering you can play them with virtualy any system. INCLUDING A NETBOOK> for some thats pretty sweet.
I have played a ton of Browser based games. I prefer ones that are not simple 2d interface. The full immersive 3d is my cup of tea.
I think that browser games will be good after 30-40 years.. Where technology will be more inspired and more good. For now i can say that if you wish to play a game that based on broswer try something "Text Based With Graphics". Here the graphic means just simple images.
Only to this point the games are good.. and why i am saying that because think, a game that is 3D or something similar always need a Plugin to be installed for to play.... so? you cant go any where and just open your broswer and Play!
But my general opinion is that after some years they will come up with more good technologies and will be more easier.
Regards..
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Balanc3, you may be confusing terms. "Browser MMO" tends to have a different usage than "Browser-based MMO." The former often refers to games where no client is downloaded, whereas the latter often refers just to the fact that the game is played from a browser window regardless of whether there is a client download. I don't really know which was intended by the OP, but do believe the 30-40 years to be a bit inflated.
Browser based games that require a download have been improving quite a bit of late with regard to graphics. Free Realms is a good example of that.
I am talking about text based MMOs created with PHP. I am in the process of creating one and we are entering testing June 1st
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MMO Interactive
Well, then there really shouldn't be any technological barriers. Good luck with that. I honestly don't know how many people play text-based games anymore. So many people want to be visually entertained with fancy images.
Travian has 174812 players right now theres 9,862 players on it.
We have the bonus of being a myspace app. and facebook app. as well as having 2 normal servers on our website.
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MMO Interactive
Travian is an RTS not an MMO isn't it?
Eternum Online is pretty much the standard for browser MMOs at the moment.
Travian is a browser game featuring a world with thousands of other real players. One begins the game acting as a chief of a tiny village.
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MMO Interactive
For some reason I can't explain, the term "Browser Based" just causes me to instantly lose interest. I've never looked at one yet, probably to my own detriment, but there you go.
How so?
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Travian sadly has the downside of all of its breed of online strategy game: eventually a bigger fish of the pond eats you, and all your weeks/months of hard work goes poof. Same as Utopia (old browser game), Barren/Solar Realms Elite (older BBS door games), and all the similar games that've been released along the years.
Plenty of players want that sort of gameplay, but it tends to be a little light on actual strategic decision-making for my tastes.
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I am taking the core ideas of Travian and trying to improve on them. Adding more strategy to the game. I am improving the economy side of things, adding a stock market to help you earn gold faster but if you don't play the stock market just right you could end up lossing gold. However how you play the stock market and if you play the stock market is completely up to you. Once the game gets going I will be working on a social networking type site where players can have a profile that includes all of their game stats from all rounds they have played. I have had a look at the Travian idea forum and I am trying to give the players what they want.
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MMO Interactive
So... a browser-based MMO would be any game you run in your internet browser, like Runescape... as opposed to... buying the game in a store, like WoW?
Anyone played AdventureQuest Worlds? I just started exploring browser games and some of them like AQW are really cool!
Check it out: www.aq.com/
IMO browser games should not be called MMOs. Its misleading, comparing them to any game people here usually mean by "MMORPG". Not that they are bad, necessarily, but a MMO or MMORPG is something else. Not everything online with other people is automatically a MMORPG. Thats like saying chess is a tabletop game. It just misleads.
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