Ask HN: What do you want from a 2d web MMO?

4 pointschrisdew2 comments

I've gone some way into writing a 2d MMO engine, as a hobby project.

It's web-based, realtime, rogue-inspired and built on a MySQL/NodeJS/Socket.IO/KockoutJS stack.

What features would you like to see in this new 2d web MMO?

Or does the world not need yet another MMO?

Thanks,

Chris.

We need a gateway MMOG engine. Something simple enough to get running so that the people who want to try their hand at creating a game can, and those who like it can move on (or upgrade?) to a more flexible and complex engine (larger worlds, more object, more interactions, etc.).

BASIC was the gateway drug that got a lot of us programming in more advanced languages. There is a space for the equivalent in MMOG engines too.

Are you asking what, as a player, I want in a game? Or what, as a dev, I'd want in an engine?

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