Given I had some downtime this week, I was looking to catch up on some of my personal projects. Of the dozen or so thing I started, the biggest and most challenging one is to make a computer game. Specifically I’ve wanted to put together a steampunk based MMORPG or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game aka world of warcraft style game to the non gaming geeks.
I got arround to researching what game engines or Software Development Kits were available for MMO development and I came across this: Heroblade, quite possibly the answer to my dreams. Only downside is it costs $5000 for a licence. With heroblade I could easily design and build a visually stunning game over the course of a couple years.
Given I don’t have the $5000 or the time required spare I’m going to need to shorten my vision and do something a bit smaller in the short term. The whole idea behind my projects were so I could develop my skills by doing something proactive so a smaller project seems the best bet as I do have the bad habit of quitting halfway through a development if things aren’t working as they should.
Given I said all that, I should point out that i’m going to finish off older projects before starting the game, I’ve just gotten back to developing my physics engine I started 3 years ago and stopped working on 15 months ago.