First things first, because I feel that this has to be said, I am indeed aware of just how much trouble the development of an actual Flash MMO game is going to take, but I am quite sure that, for the magnitude I am expecting the game to have early on, I am up to the task.
With that off my chest, I can begin talking about what I am here for. The thing is, after about 5 years of working around with Flash, I finally felt like I was ready to work on what I had been for so long wanting to develop. A full-sized Flash MMORPG.
Now, of course, the most normal thing to think after hearing that, is that doing such a thing is nearly impossible, and not worth a try when you don't have the resources it takes to develop what is surely going to be an expensive production, at least if it is to be a decent one. However, as I said early on, I do not expect this to be a massive production nor anything similar, for a long time. The idea is to develop something small, and as it works out (if it does) , develop it even further. Where it will stop, just how good it is gonna end, of course, is something that cannot be foretold, but as the dreamer I am, I have some seriously good expectations about this game.
But, why am I talking about this around here, you ask. Well, it's probably kind of obvious that what I am looking for, when coming here, is help. Because, no matter how much experience I have, how slowly I want to take on things or just how much faith I have, I can't produce something like this on my own.
I don't know about you, but if it was I that was reading this, what I would think was that I was just some guy who had this idea, and now wanted other people to do his work for him. I've seen that happening far too many times in the past. But that is not the case in here, for I can and will be developing most of the game by myself.
Thus far, what I have done includes planning on the game (which means about 3 or 4 notebooks full of formulas regarding game mechanics) and developing a kinda nice user interface. I'm very proud of what I've done with the graphics system of the game, which will be working around and isometric point of view that can be rotated (which means you can be seeing things from 4 different points of view). That engine is nearly complete by now, and the only reason I even came here, was because I had some of it to show.
You see, after studying a little about XML Socket connections, and all that comes with it, I managed to make an environment where you can walk around with a character on this graphics engine and see other people around (By this point of the text, I'd ask you to pardon me for such the lame writing stile, but I'm just not very imaginative right now). So, what I did was make a small recording of this being used, so you can take a look at it.
If you want, you can check it out at . You'll have to excuse me for the several mistakes I made around at the video, but turns out I wasn't as prepared as I tough when I began recording it, but you can get the idea of the video.
On the video, you'll only see as much as two different players logged in at once, but by the time of this writing, we managed to have as much as six different players around with no problems at all.
Well, hopefully, the video managed to catch you attention, and maybe even made you feeling like helping out on this. At least that was the whole point of its existence. So, I'll start talking of exactly what I need in terms of help. I'm dealing with most of the planning and coding of the game and a friend of mine (the one who showed up at the video) is maintaining a server for the game. What I need, however, is someone who would work with the graphics of the game, because at that I just plainly suck (the character you saw at the movie was actually "stolen" from a GBA game that also used an isometric point of view), someone to deal with the audio part (because I'm quite clueless on that aspect) and anyone else who believed to be able to give some needed help.
Not wanting to talk much more (and because I feel like what I just wrote just plain sucks, in terms of structuring and choices of words), I'll just ask anyone interested in helping to send my a message here (on newgrounds) and preferably a mail to master@dahamugo.com , if possible with some sort of sample of what you could do.
With no more to say, I thank in advance for any answer, and say goodbye.
Sincerely, Dahamugo.http://www.dahamugo.com/sample
