i would like to know what could be the main timeline of the game like EverQuest or Warhammer (MMORPG) games? would it be 2 years 3 years ?? where technologies will be DirectX9, and torque or anyother engine, VC++6 . thanks in advance regards

I think you really need to clarify your question (and thread topic) because it's a bit ambigious.

Do you mean to ask "How long does a title like Everquest take to develop"? That's completely different than what you seem to be asking (it sounds like you're actually asking about the timeline of the game story itself). Games like Everquest took much longer (I assume, I haven't read many of the tech info about it) than two years to develop, you have to consider huge databases to be able to track everything and keep the worlds alive, above and beyond graphics, input, gameplay, art, etc.

As for the second part, what do you mean "where technologies will be DirectX9..."? I honestly am confused by this, do you mean to ask "If you start with GenericAPI(vX), then two years later finish when GenericAPI(vZ) is out, do you just stay with vX, or try to upgrade to vZ"? I think, for a large scale commercial project, you start with what you have available, and work from there. If the engine is open ended enough that you can fit in the lately technologies later down the line, all the better, but a good game engine should be more than just the technologies driving it. It shouldn't matter if you are a year behind in graphics or physics, because the engine itself still delivers.

Quote:Original post by xycsoscyx
I think you really need to clarify your question (and thread topic) because it's a bit ambigious.

Do you mean to ask "How long does a title like Everquest take to develop"? That's completely different than what you seem to be asking (it sounds like you're actually asking about the timeline of the game story itself). Games like Everquest took much longer (I assume, I haven't read many of the tech info about it) than two years to develop, you have to consider huge databases to be able to track everything and keep the worlds alive, above and beyond graphics, input, gameplay, art, etc.

As for the second part, what do you mean "where technologies will be DirectX9..."? I honestly am confused by this, do you mean to ask "If you start with GenericAPI(vX), then two years later finish when GenericAPI(vZ) is out, do you just stay with vX, or try to upgrade to vZ"? I think, for a large scale commercial project, you start with what you have available, and work from there. If the engine is open ended enough that you can fit in the lately technologies later down the line, all the better, but a good game engine should be more than just the technologies driving it. It shouldn't matter if you are a year behind in graphics or physics, because the engine itself still delivers.

Thanks for the reply, well yeah i was asking how much long the development time require for any a game like "everquest" or "Warhammer". But i am asking for the PC base game which will run on Windows including DirectX9 as the graphic technology. Even if i would include this Torque engine then will this addition can less the development time or not...that was the question which i was trying to ask . :)

Quote:Original post by sirob
That depends on the team size and the amount of experience the team members have.

For an unexperienced small team, it would most likely take years.

For an experienced large team, it would probably take more than a year.

If you plan at doing this alone, I can't say I see you ever finishing it, even if you use Torque.

Hope this helps.

tell me how much big team i required for unexperiance one (who never worked before on MMORPG)? if you have any guidelines which can help me for its development then please let me know.

My assumptions of the current project are.
Time frame: 1 year and 10 months aprox (day night work)
Team: minimum 17 members
Programmers: 7
3d CG artists: 4
Sketch Artists: 2
Sound engineers: 2
Game designer(Architecture):2


what u say???

Funny thing is, I'd say you have your team size backwards. It takes longer to make quality 3D models and artwork than it does (in theory) to actually program the engine. For a team unexperienced with MMORPG development, at least a couple years for a polished, high end engine. If you are just looking for something simple, then this is a different matter entirely. You'd really hae to define the scope of your project first, what are the goals, what do you want to include, how high end will it be, what are your hardware limitations and availability (servers and such). You can't really give a definitive estimate without knowing most of those things.