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  Hi, New to this so if i have posted in the wrong place please move it!I want to make a game for my website based on 'dopewars' found at www.treadon.usI want to change it from a game based on drugs to one with a pirate theme.I have no experience at all so i need help with EVERYTHING! Even better, you make the game and i wouldnt mind paying for it if i had some idea of the cost.Cheers!!   
  Are you going to make it web based or downloadable? (Emphasise on you, its unlikely that someone is going to make this game for you, even for pay)   ;  It would be web based.   ;  Real-time or turnbased? I'm guessing turnbased, in which case, you should make sure that your webhost has PHP support(it's server side, so they will have to have it). Then you can check out a PHP tutorial, like the one at w3schools. Then, once you've done some PHP coding, get an SQL database (again, server side, so make sure that your webhost has it). w3schools has tutorials and references on SQL, also, so check those out and learn SQL. Then, you'll have to combine your knowledge of PHP and SQL to create the game and use SQL to store everyone's information.That's the rough outline. I think that it will probably take you at least a month to get to making the game. If you've got more questions, I'm sure someone here will help you, or at the w3schools forums.FYI, turnbased games will be simpler, and probably use check boxes, pull-down lists, radio buttons, etc. for controlling, not the keyboard (except typing into textboxes). A realtime game would require learning Flash, Java, or something similiar.Best of luck!   ;  I'm moving this to For Beginners.   ;  as for paying someone to do it.. if the price is right sure, most people could probably do it for roughly $2000-$3000. (i don't know how complex the game is so it might be a bit high or way too low), but you probably won't be able to get anyone to make a game FOR you for less than $10-$20/hour.Getting people to make a game WITH you is alot easier and is often free (unless you intend to make money of it, in that case people will atleast want a cut of the profits) but requires you to do most of the work. (everyone has ideas and if you don't do your part of the work most people would rather work on a project of their own)if you can get a playable prototype of the game up and running it will be relativly easy to find people to help you improve/finnish it.   ;Quote:Original post by EzbezReal-time or turnbased? I'm guessing turnbased, in which case, you should make sure that your webhost has PHP support(it's server side, so they will have to have it). Then you can check out a PHP tutorial, like the one at w3schools. Then, once you've done some PHP coding, get an SQL database (again, server side, so make sure that your webhost has it). w3schools has tutorials and references on SQL, also, so check those out and learn SQL. Then, you'll have to combine your knowledge of PHP and SQL to create the game and use SQL to store everyone's information.That's the rough outline. I think that it will probably take you at least a month to get to making the game. If you've got more questions, I'm sure someone here will help you, or at the w3schools forums.FYI, turnbased games will be simpler, and probably use check boxes, pull-down lists, radio buttons, etc. for controlling, not the keyboard (except typing into textboxes). A realtime game would require learning Flash, Java, or something similiar.Best of luck!I have .php and SQL databases on my hosting package already lined up.I wanted it to be real time not turn based. The link for 3schools doesnt work!!