Installer?

[pers04]

im making a non flash game that is like 1 gig (its a mmorpg alrdy has 100 users, would post link but might get baned lol PM me) and i was wondering i alrdy made an installer but is there a way to make a more proffesinal one with pictures and custumized stuff?

[Xenolithic]

At 6/29/09 12:41 AM, pers04 wrote: im making a non flash game that is like 1 gig (its a mmorpg alrdy has 100 users, would post link but might get baned lol PM me) and i was wondering i alrdy made an installer but is there a way to make a more proffesinal one with pictures and custumized stuff?

Assuming you already made an MMORPG that's 1GB, and decent enough to have 100 users, you should know how to make a customized installer.

[apeskape]

Google nullsoft installer.

[Super-Yombario]

Wow, made an MMO and you already talk like the users!

I always make a batch program to move/make files for me and some #includes in my flash file to search for the AS files. Splitting up your AS into different documents saves the file size by quite a bit, but it's still going to be pretty much the same size when you calculate all the files together.

[wreckages]

i'm sensing a troll....

[pers04]

thanks for the help everyone its funny cuz my mmo is almost as good as wow (graphics and story and combat and shit) and im only 12 and i know a bit of C++ lol

[CronoMan]

At 6/29/09 04:22 PM, pers04 wrote: thanks for the help everyone its funny cuz my mmo is almost as good as wow (graphics and story and combat and shit) and im only 12 and i know a bit of C++ lol

I smell bullshit

[kiwi-kiwi]

I'm sure there are far better ways to do this, but if you can program an mmo then you can surely program an installer.

Basically what the installer does is take all game files and dependencies and package them. So you would have to make a program to compress all your files using some algorithm ( Most I've seen use LZ compression so you could probably do with this algorithm )

After that program is finished, you build an interface to show the EULA, ask everything you need to know about the installation process, like where to extract the files, if the user wants a desktop / quick launch / start menu shortcut and finally you unpack everything.
You should also make a log somewhere to keep track of all changes, so when someone wants to uninstall you can remove everything.

Also when packaging dependencies DO NOT put the dlls on your machine directly into the installer and then unpack them as they are on the target machine, because that can cause some errors due to version mismatch ( inno says so - Never pull in any of the system files from your own Windows System directory. If this advice is ignored, you risk potentially causing DLL version conflicts ), just use the redistributables and run them from you custom installer when the time comes.

[Relish]

I am going to assume that even though you said you know some C++, you know absolutely none and used Realm Crafter to drag and drop together another generic MMORPG game. That all your friends are playing and that nobody else cares about.

[wreckages]

At 6/29/09 04:22 PM, pers04 wrote: thanks for the help everyone its funny cuz my mmo is almost as good as wow (graphics and story and combat and shit) and im only 12 and i know a bit of C++ lol

so, care to show it to us? lol'd

[kiwi-kiwi]

At 6/30/09 01:00 PM, Relish wrote: I am going to assume that even though you said you know some C++, you know absolutely none and used Realm Crafter to drag and drop together another generic MMORPG game. That all your friends are playing and that nobody else cares about.

LOL, you can drag and drop MMOS now?
And to think I spent all that time learning how to code games.

[Super-Yombario]

At 6/30/09 01:00 PM, Relish wrote: MMORPG game

He might as well have built an ATM machine while he was at it :/

Yeah seriously, if you made it in one of those crappy MMO makers then it's not even really your game, pretty sure it's illegal to make any kind of money off of it so yeah.

[pers04]

thanks you guys are nice

[Super-Yombario]

At 7/2/09 11:54 PM, pers04 wrote: thanks you guys are nice

Thanks, you're smart

[066pop]

At 6/30/09 05:05 PM, Super-Yombario wrote: Yeah seriously, if you made it in one of those crappy MMO makers then it's not even really your game, pretty sure it's illegal to make any kind of money off of it so yeah.

Actually, tools created by 'The Game Creators' to make games with generally allow you to SELL and make PROFIT from games you make with them. Mostly because they suck in the end. However if you put a LOT of effort into one it can be half decent.

Just have a look at their websites, and read their documents:
FPS Creator
FPS Creator X10
Realm Crafter
Dark Basic
Dark Basic PRO

Most of them just say as long as you have something along the lines of 'Made with [TOOL NAME] copyright to The Game Creators' somewhere, they dont give a damn about what you do with it!

[Super-Yombario]

Huh, I forgot Realm Crafters was from The Game Creators. My bad.