General Questions

[Emperor Wilbers]

Okay, so, I'll try to make this all as clear as possible: I'm quite confused about the whole RPing thing. Okay, so, I've heard several things lately about coding my game that I'm making for the forum. I thought that it was supposed to be text-based, and figured that it doesn't need coding since it's basically story-telling. Or is it an actual game? Please give me the whole rundown of what EXACTLY everything is.

[Throndir]

Perhaps we're mixing different parts of RPs.

First off there's RPs which are roleplays, which is usually the term used for story-telling forum-based rolepalying games.

As for text-based rp, or text-based rp game, that would be the term used for something like Legendary Tales. An actual game project that requires coding.

Lastly, just to clear some misunderstandings, creating a setting/world/story/RP, can eventually be ported into a text-based game pretty easily. Either way, if you want to make a text-based game, you would have to create the story first. Thinking ideas of a setting/world/story/RP only helps facilitate that.

For example, the roleplay that Hasabushi is starting, Dungeon Quester. It won't be too much of a push to eventually convert that for Legendarytales and turn it from an RP into a text-based game.

[Emperor Wilbers]

Thanks so much! That really helps! :bounce: