Complete MMORPG Development Guide
by Dreamer · in Torque Game Engine · 12/20/2005 (3:02 am) · 594 replies
Hello everyone.
I have the MMORPG Advanced Tutorials completely rewritten for TGE 1.4, with all kinds of new features.
The new tutorial series is called "The Complete MMORPG Development Guide"
It is meant to take a person from the earliest stages of developing a game Conceptualization, Design Docs etc to a ready to ship MMO.
I am in the process of transcribing it to my site at mydreamrpg.com
This will be the final incarnation of the guide until there is a TSE for linux, at which time I will again do a port.
To access the development portions of the site as well as the code sections of the guide you will need to be a current TGE licensee. (currently you will need to be verified by emailing me after registration)
I am also launching a game based on the tutorials, as well as a second site DreamRPGOnline devoted exclusively to the game.
The guide is meant to be a living document and as new and better ways are discovered of doing things, it will be updated by the community that is building up around it.
A secondary goal is to provide a plethora of content for people looking to create rich worlds using the MMORPG enchancement kit I will be providing at no charge, as well as an open market for up and coming artists and coders to sell their content to help subisdize their own game development desires.
I want to stress upfront that this site is NOT meant to compete in anyway with garagegames, in fact to access the vast majority of content on the site you will need to be a TGE licensee.
In fact it is my strong desire to spur sales here of indie games and content, and to increase the interest and awareness of crossplatform indie created games.
I also (quite intentionally), make heavy use of content and packs which can only be purchased here at garagegames.com
Without these packs the full richness of the guide and MMORPG enchancement kit cannot truely be experienced.
I hope everyone here enjoys the site and at least comes to pay us a visit.
We will be doing a load test and server burn in on our game servers as soon as I have enough users on the site who wish to participate and I could sure use your help in doing this.
Regards,
Dreamer
I have the MMORPG Advanced Tutorials completely rewritten for TGE 1.4, with all kinds of new features.
The new tutorial series is called "The Complete MMORPG Development Guide"
It is meant to take a person from the earliest stages of developing a game Conceptualization, Design Docs etc to a ready to ship MMO.
I am in the process of transcribing it to my site at mydreamrpg.com
This will be the final incarnation of the guide until there is a TSE for linux, at which time I will again do a port.
To access the development portions of the site as well as the code sections of the guide you will need to be a current TGE licensee. (currently you will need to be verified by emailing me after registration)
I am also launching a game based on the tutorials, as well as a second site DreamRPGOnline devoted exclusively to the game.
The guide is meant to be a living document and as new and better ways are discovered of doing things, it will be updated by the community that is building up around it.
A secondary goal is to provide a plethora of content for people looking to create rich worlds using the MMORPG enchancement kit I will be providing at no charge, as well as an open market for up and coming artists and coders to sell their content to help subisdize their own game development desires.
I want to stress upfront that this site is NOT meant to compete in anyway with garagegames, in fact to access the vast majority of content on the site you will need to be a TGE licensee.
In fact it is my strong desire to spur sales here of indie games and content, and to increase the interest and awareness of crossplatform indie created games.
I also (quite intentionally), make heavy use of content and packs which can only be purchased here at garagegames.com
Without these packs the full richness of the guide and MMORPG enchancement kit cannot truely be experienced.
I hope everyone here enjoys the site and at least comes to pay us a visit.
We will be doing a load test and server burn in on our game servers as soon as I have enough users on the site who wish to participate and I could sure use your help in doing this.
Regards,
Dreamer
#23
SDK Owner here as well. User name on your site is Shannara, and here is Shannara.
12/22/2005 (2:54 pm)
After a few refreshes, the verification word was rendered correctly :) SDK Owner here as well. User name on your site is Shannara, and here is Shannara.
#24
@Everyone as you can plainly see I'm just a little bit swamped. Apparatus is on my art team and I have charged him with getting all 70+ of you guys verified. LOL I went to bed with 2 pages of comments this morning, and woke up this afternoon with 8 pages! This is going to be a fun ride.
12/22/2005 (3:06 pm)
@ Jeff, hey cool man thats great! The more the merrier! Oh yeah get me some banners ;)@Everyone as you can plainly see I'm just a little bit swamped. Apparatus is on my art team and I have charged him with getting all 70+ of you guys verified. LOL I went to bed with 2 pages of comments this morning, and woke up this afternoon with 8 pages! This is going to be a fun ride.
#25
12/22/2005 (3:24 pm)
I'm an owner and I registered on your site as chriskuy
#26
I created the SDK Owner access level as stopgap measure, since I will start to reveal code tonight, and I don't want to violate the license (plus I hope it will spur sales of TGE which is good for this community)
I am going to grant Pro Access on the site to anyone who currently has a shipping product here at GarageGames. (Right now SDK Owner sits between Neophyte and Pro in terms of access levels (there will be more to the site than just the tutorials)).
The advantages of Pro are too numerous to list. But the big difference between a person with Pro level and Neophyte level is how much they have given back to the community.
I will update my blog over there with more info about it tonight.
12/22/2005 (6:21 pm)
Thanks everyone, I managed to get all 75+ users verified as SDK owners (I hope).I created the SDK Owner access level as stopgap measure, since I will start to reveal code tonight, and I don't want to violate the license (plus I hope it will spur sales of TGE which is good for this community)
I am going to grant Pro Access on the site to anyone who currently has a shipping product here at GarageGames. (Right now SDK Owner sits between Neophyte and Pro in terms of access levels (there will be more to the site than just the tutorials)).
The advantages of Pro are too numerous to list. But the big difference between a person with Pro level and Neophyte level is how much they have given back to the community.
I will update my blog over there with more info about it tonight.
#27
signed up on your sight as dejablue and same here and i am a sdk owner
12/22/2005 (6:38 pm)
Heyaz dreamersigned up on your sight as dejablue and same here and i am a sdk owner
#28
12/22/2005 (7:37 pm)
Signed up in your site as rogerdelgado, sdk owner here too
#29
12/22/2005 (9:07 pm)
Signed up as leviathandigital and I am an sdk owner.
#30
12/23/2005 (12:04 am)
SDK owner, signed up as hC on your site.
#31
12/23/2005 (12:20 am)
SDK owner. Signed up as bobizam.
#32
12/23/2005 (3:37 am)
SDK owner, Signed up as stevenmbiz. 
#33
12/23/2005 (3:44 am)
SDK owner, username jcsmith on your site.
#34
12/23/2005 (7:44 am)
No offense, but your site iz real hard to navigate. it's hard to tell what the forumn thread names are and the forumn catagory names are. i couldn't find the tutorials at all and have no clue what half the things on the menu are even supposed to do! =(
#36
I am an SDK owner of TorqueGE, TSE and T2D.
I registered on your site as Amon.
Thanks :)
12/23/2005 (10:03 am)
Hi!I am an SDK owner of TorqueGE, TSE and T2D.
I registered on your site as Amon.
Thanks :)
#37
12/23/2005 (12:18 pm)
Paul Z here, I am a registered TGE owner, your site registration name is Prelius
#38
12/23/2005 (1:33 pm)
Hey there Dishmal, can we please keep this thread for people seeking activation, and talk about the site issues such as navigation over there? 
#39
12/23/2005 (1:35 pm)
I found it hard to navigate at a first browse but now seems like a walk in the park.
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