Comment Re-inventing the wheel? ;) (Score 3, Insightful) 431
The utmost strategy game, Empire has been around since late 1970s, and it's been developing ever since.
It is correct, that Empire is the most, or one of the most difficult of the present online strategy games in their curve of learning (chess is tactics), but thus it is also more
challenging!
The powerful server is released under GPL. It is quite neatly written in ansi C and is ported to numerous platforms. Clients for it exist both in command-line form - in C and Perl, and in GUI - VB and PythonTK.
The most difficult thing in such a game is not the programming one, that one is in fact relatively easy. Inventing the rules and the possible scenarios is the challenge!
If you just want to practice Client-Server programming, you better write a server for a game with simple rules, aforementioned chess for example.
The powerful server is released under GPL. It is quite neatly written in ansi C and is ported to numerous platforms. Clients for it exist both in command-line form - in C and Perl, and in GUI - VB and PythonTK.
The most difficult thing in such a game is not the programming one, that one is in fact relatively easy. Inventing the rules and the possible scenarios is the challenge!
If you just want to practice Client-Server programming, you better write a server for a game with simple rules, aforementioned chess for example.
