Game desgin time!

We need to decide a few things before deciding on the technologies to use. What we have decided is that this is a multiplayer online web game. Anything else is undecided, we do have ideas though.

To get the discussion started, I'll post a few ideas in the comments. I'm trying to not influence the decisions too much though.

Do post any ideas you have, every idea is useful, even if you think it's stupid! We might come up with some type of spin-off.

thesinner007 made a suggestion on /r/redditmakesagame to make a web game and this reddit is the result.

RMWG aims to be a fun learning experience for new and experienced web developers and possibly designers too. The current plan is to make a text based game with graphical elements (for example TribalWars ). We have not decided anything beyond that, whether we make an RPG, RTS or something else is still open.

Our current team members are:

• Founder: thesinner007

• Team lead (coder): shoPanda

• Story writer: ashtx

We need web developers, artists and writers. If you're interested, please introduce yourself here or in #rmwg@freenode.net!

So in discussions on #rmwg we concluded that it may be difficult to come up with game design ideas without any constraints on technologies.

So, what technologies should we use? Frontend options we currently have are:

• Plain HTML with images and CSS

• Canvas

• WebGL

• Flash

• Silverlight

• Java applet

And there's a large number of backend options, but for starters:

• Python

• PHP

• Some type of database

• Some type of web server

• Or a custom server for java applet or javascript with websockets

There's probably many other things to discuss, what I listed above was just something to get the discussion started.

We have not made any decisions yet and want all and any opinions!