Could anyone tell me what genre the game 'Howrse' would be called? www.howrse.com and what would be a easiest program to use to make a simular type game online? Im a total newbie, but keen ot learn
Rabbitnutz
Just from a glance at the website it looks like a Simulation type game - generally along the lines of a Management Sim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_and_management_simulation.
As far as the easiest program to use to make it, I don't know of any software setup specifically to create sim games so in my experience you'd have to create it from the ground up. If anyone else knows of a sim-creator I'd be keen to hear of it!
Hey cool thank you for that, I'd love to know more :) If anyone knows of a 'how to' to get me started I'd be very happy
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ya it is a sim type game but it has no moving snimation, no 3d nothing just pictures and simple buttons...very simple realy but addictive lol
Sorry for the late reply. I didn't want to reply until I had a few ideas.
Just a warning, it's fairly deceptive on how simple it looks, it'll probably be reasonably complicated. But don't worry.
I assume you want to make it web based so I see a few options options.
Learn HTML, Flash, Unity or Cocos2d or something similar for front end graphics stuff and a server side language (like php) for the back end database stuff.
No matter what you do, you will probably need to learn atleast 2 new languages and some sort of database structure. That could be something as simple as a flat file database (plain text files) or something more advanced like mysql. This is if you need to permanently store user data/horse stats etc.
If however, you don't really care about it being on the web, and just want to make it for the sake of making it, like a prototype for personal use, go with Unity, mainly because its simple to use and free, and it has the ability to go 3D if you decide to later. Also, it's scripting language UnityScript, is essentially Javascript, which is useful for web based stuff.
I'm not aware of an engine or software package or how-to to make something like this in the same sense as fps and rpg creators.
If you want a avoid programming, you can use Multimedia Fusion 2. It costs, but there is a free version that works exclusively with newgrounds.com
Thanks for that, Its given me somewhere to start :) I'll keep working on it