Monopoly Online! [UNRESOLVED]

[ArChAnGeL2k3]

Hey folks,

Thats it now I have some time to start a project which i wanted to do for a long time, build Monopoly Online!
Not something big but nice version of Monopoly for lets say 8 people max.
Now about the graphics its not a problem, and the localhost version is not that hard (simple programing), but the tricky part is the online can you advise me what object shall I use?
or what I need to know about it? i even dont know where to start looking


I hope that this subject will be sticky and people will post their ideas here.

For example i thought making it a bit bigger then usual, put more cities, more streets and other fun stuff.

Thenks for your attention
Cheers.

[Electroman]

Nice Idea, I've never tried Monopoly Online so I don't know what it already includes but your Idea about cities and stuff sounds good. Maybe you could have a SimCity kinda view to it and then have muliple paths the player can take. Saying that you might even be able to do it in 3D if you could handle the graphics .

As for the graphics are you saying you've alreay got that sorted? Is the only problem you have the network stuff? If so then it depends, if your using Dx for the graphics then DPlay is a good choice. However if your not using Dx for the graphics it might be just as easy to use the inet activeX control.

[ArChAnGeL2k3]

OMG
This is great to hear such great ideas but as matter of fact I know nada about graphics and even less about peer to peer connection, I thought that the first version will be like dots moving on the blackbored and the look is from above and couple of nice designed buttons, what I ment by graphics is nice pictures and names of the cities.
I think that it is better to start from small and then try to make it bigger project(like 3D), and maybe some people from the community would like to be involved.
And again for now I must learn how to use all the connection stuff

[Electroman]

If your to start off small first of all it might be an idea to make a simple 2D above view version of it where it doesn't use any internet connections. So both players take turns to use the same PC to make their moves, after all it is a game that is turn based so using the one PC is ok.

Depends how you want to do this game I suppose for the graphics, if your willing to learn some basic DirectX stuff (www.DirectX4VB) then you can make a fullscreen game. Or if your new to VB then it might be a better idea to use simpily a PictureBox for each object (BitBlt if you want, would be better too).
I would go for the DirectX approach as it will run faster and look nicer, allows you to advance the game to 3D if you decide to update it.

Back to this simple version first, this will not focus on graphics too much because there will probably be a lot of code needed to get the whole Monopoly thing working.

[ArChAnGeL2k3]

Ok then i guess this topic is off for the next couple of weeks, letme finnish the simple version with the PC and Ill get back to this thread

Cheers
for now
Stas out.

[Electroman]

Posted by ArChAnGeL2k3
Ok then i guess this topic is off for the next couple of weeks, letme finnish the simple version with the PC and Ill get back to this thread

Cheers
for now
Stas out.

Well don't forget if you get stuck on any of it just make a new thread for the problem, DirectX isn't the easiest thing to work with, BTW I advise Dx7 if your only doing it in 2D (and are choosing the DirectX option)

[ArChAnGeL2k3]

Sure thing!
thx mate.