Marek Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 do you know those games like for example grepolis, travian and so on? i mean those browser based games where you build some town and attack others players or those more like a rpg where you buy weapons for your character and so on. so if you wanted to make such a game, whould you do it using processwire? is it suitable for similar projects? or does plain PHP makes more sense?
adrian Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 I don't see much use for PW in a project like that unless you have an associated site with profiles of all the players or something, but even so I think in that case I think there are better options for that. I assume the key thing you are looking for PW to do is store info about each player, their score, their weapons arsenal etc? Obviously the game itself will be canvas/javascript. Can I recommend EaselJS for all your game logic and canvas manipulations? I think I would probably go with a completely JS solution and use MongoDB (or some other noSQL DB) for this. There are lots of options.
owzim Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 I think for the whole data and user handling PW is very well suited. If it's a browser game in the classic sense, that's all you need. If you want real-time user interaction, you of course need something like @adrian mentioned. I once fiddled around with a couple of HTML5 2D game engines and found Phaser to very fast (webGL with canvas fallback), powerful and flexible. It's built on pixi (which is the HTML5 successor of a once very popular flash gfx engine, can't remember now). 3
Marek Posted April 22, 2015 Author Posted April 22, 2015 no real-time user interaction, animations or html5 engines needed. JS could be used for moving map, countdowns and chat... these games are almost like some community website ... people play these for months or years and login in each day just to click to upgrade some of their buldings in their town which may take more than a day... 1
adrian Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Ah, right - sorry I wasn't thinking about this style of game - I had no idea they still existed! owzim's comment is much more appropriate than mine
clsource Posted April 23, 2015 Posted April 23, 2015 Ah yeah pretty much PW will be a perfect fit. Those games are just traditional websites with a "gaming" purpose. I recommend making the backend with PW and the front end with angular js, ember or similar.
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