if you want to make a online game like runecsape how do you???

Question

i looked all over the place 4 the anwser

Answer 1

Thats because there are no answers, you better get yourself back in school and start learning to program or teach yourself.

Its goning to take a lot more work than any one single question could answer, and months if not years of time.

Answer 2

Game programming is very complicated.

The concept of making an online game like Runescape (MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) involves:

Creating game code that runs on everyones computer when they play the game. This mostly includes just graphics and user interface through mouse and keyboard, also sound.

The rest of the code such as items held, cash owned, and the positions of players in the world are run separately on a server, or servers.

Clients connect to this server and both programs interact by sending each other messages (e.g. user clicks somewhere and tells server. Server tells user that they have moved there. User updates the graphics to show this).

This is just an example of how it may work. If you have enough experience in game programming, doing something like this should be relatively easy.

Answer 3

It is very difficult and time consuming to learn game programming...even simple game programming. It requires knowledge of many different fields of programming, including graphics, networking, sound, to name a few. Not to mention physics (for collision detection) and design.
If you are interested in learning, I'd first learn programming, and then try to build a simple game like Breakout, or Pong....then I'd tried building a mod.
check out gamedev.net for game programming info.

Answer 4

it takes thousands (possibly millions or billions, i'm not sure) of lines of code, a team of programmers, many meetings, MANY customer support hours wasted due to careless code (I.E. bugs, unfinished code sent in as final, etc.), and constant updates to finish it.

for runescape, that was made in Java (I'm almost positive of that).

It won't be fun, i can tell you that. Programming isn't fun, it's work, and it's that feeling I get when I solve a huge problem that keeps me working for days (but that's just me).

Bottom line: PROGRAMING ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS YOU MIGHT THINK!!!