Javascript MMO sample

[v6v]

ok, for months i havent been here, painfully working on my project... collaborating with the neighborhood kids... ive taken it upon myself to form a 'side' project seeing as my game is near completion... ok, i need some one who knows about javascript code... any of the brilliant ladies or gents here know about flexible javascript code in an mmorpg? embedded in a webpage? ive noticed that the SGDK2 is such a fine tool that i should use the brilliant graphics editor to work on a mmo rpg for the nintendo dsi browser. if you want an example of what i mean please visit dsipaint.com. all i really need is help with mmo code for i am creating a website, and yes i will note SGDK2 as my major development tool for the game.  ANY EXPIRIENCED JAVASCRIPT PROGRAMMERS PLEASE HELP [again i apoligize to anyone who was trying to locate me the past 3 months, i was really caught into my project]

[tprime]

I wish I can help, but I don't know anything about that.
You can make a javascript game with SGDK?

[Jam0864]

You cannot embed an exe into a webpage as far as I know. Use something like Adobe Flash if you want to create a browser based game.

[Vincent]

I can't help but wonder what you want to accomplish with JS to make an MMORPG! 

I worked for years with JS and, honestly, it would probably be my last choice for game development.  JS is good to put some scripts on a webpage to validate forms, you can do some AJAX with it, but making a game?  ouch!   :hurt:

I strongly agree with Jam0864: use Flash!  You will have a much better graphic support, you can debug ActionScript easier than Javascript, you have tools for animation, etc etc.  Or, if you worked with C# a bit into SGDK2, you could try Silverlight.  Very similar to Flash from what I heard, and since it's a Microsoft product, I guess you can use C#.

[durnurd]

On the contrary, I embedded an SGDK2 game in a web page as a test awhile ago.  There were several shortcomings:

You had to manually add the website as a trusted source for .NET assemblies.
It only works in Internet Explorer (uses Active X controls)
It had to download some temporary files to your computer

I still have it up... here: Super Happy Funland

In any case, my point is that it's technically possible to embed an SGDK2 game in the browser.  With some tweaks, fixes, and added plugins, these issues could be worked around.

As for Javascript, well, no, SGDK2 does not build to Javascript.  BlueMonk and I talked about doing something at some point (pipe dream) to allow for building to Java.  Now, I know next to nothing about Google Web Toolkit, but I do know that it takes Java code you write and converts it to HTML and Javascript (pretty fancy, heh?).  These technologies would almost certainly be incompatible to begin with, and even if the hurdles were to great, you would still have a Java application which you could turn into an applet an embed in the browser.

[v6v]

yah... lol bluemonkmn mentioned something about your game durund...  a while back... anyways im trying to make it dsicompatible website... i can only use javascript... at the moment... until nintendo stops acting stingy and gives me what ive paid for.... i know it fails to flash... but ive heard certain people can work wonders using it... please... help... btw durund any chance of that working on the Opera browser?

[Jam0864]

btw durund any chance of that working on the Opera browser?

nope. If it's using ActiveX controls it will only ever work in IE, and as he's said it had a shortcoming where the player had to add the website as a truster source before playing, which most players would scoff at and leave the site.
It worked well after that, but really web browser games are very, very limited.


If you were running the web server on your local computer, you could run the game you made on the server, then take screenshots of the game on the server, compress them, and stream them to the player in real time, as they're trying to play. Would likely result in lots of input lag, and require the use of a web language and c#. (or perhaps if your streamer was an external application to the game you could use something like visual basic or python.)

[bluemonkmn]

Technically, I don't think it's ActiveX, but it does still appear to be limited to IE:
http://devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=187

I'm not sure if other browsers or other platforms support any way of embedding any kind of .NET-based control, but it seems within the realm of possibility since .NET is cross-platform and some browsers are cross-platform.  I'm not aware of anything yet, though.