From: Flaab Mrlinux <flaab_mrlinux@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T23:37:56+09:00
Subject: [ONLINE GAME] Ruby Core + Php FrontEnd (open)

Good afternoon everyone.

I've been thinking around this for a long time. I want to program a
Online Estrategy Game (sort of Ogame style) and I just had technical
problems. But since i learned ruby I think i might just have found the
solution and i would like to check out your opinions.

My main problem was...Fine, players will have their empire and can do
certaing things (attacking, organizing their army, creating new fuel
sources, etc) and those actions change/create lines in the game
database. That's cool by now and had no problem with it, Php would do
the trick. But the problem is that the GAME core has to be running and
executing actions when neccesary. For example; an attack takes some
hours to arrive the attacked city, and depends of distance, speed of the
army, etc. Fuel sources creates fuel and arms but also takes some time.
This is why i need a CORE to be working all the time (or almost).

So this is what i've thought; I'm gonna have a Web Based Php Front-end
for the players to comunicate with the game. And a Ruby Core program
sinchronized with Cron to be launched every 3 minutes for example. That
Core will do all these things i can't do from Php, catching MySql files
that tells it what to do, do it, and update those MySql fields which may
need updating.

Can this be done?

Thx

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