I have a mmorpg all hammered out in my brain and on paper, the story, quests, classes, items, etc. The whole thing. I''ve played many onling rpg''s and have found most of them to be boring after a while, with the exception of a rare few. The one I would like to make has many new concepts. But, I have NO idea how to make my dream a reality. What should I do? Seek out a team, or a already established company? Try and sell it? I dont know. I have some programming experience (java, perl, basic), but none in C. I do enjoy drawing though. I''m not sure if I should find a team. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thx Fear is the mind killer...

The thing is MMO takes millions of dollars and large teams to implement and maintain. Its not a simple as coming up with some notes on paper. It also not the kind of thing you can program by yourself or just start off doing. You need to gain alot more experince before you can even start attempting a MMORPG.

Start of small find a copy of RPG Maker and use it make single player version of your idea. You''ll be suprised about how much work actuly goes into an RPG its a big job.

Once you''ve finished that game and have tested and debugged. Go to the next step of getting some friends together to program a small rpg from scatch that includes building your own engine.

Then after its done and tested, distribute it freely online and get some feedback. Then move on to learning how to do network programming. Once you can create and maintain stable server passed game.

You''ll have some idea of the workds thats needed to make a MMORPG.



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Dont get me wrong, I know it takes an insane amount of money, people, and time to make. I just wouldnt want it to go to waste.

You should check out http://www.worldforge.org/. They are open source so you are not going to make any money..