Hey guys,
Background:
I have been on and off working on the design for a game similar to A Dark Room; a game that is mostly text but you get to a point in the game where you have this world map that you traverse by moving around. Fighting or events are handled through stats in a turn based fashion. The multiplayer part should functions similar to Kingdom of Loathing; you login and play in your browser, no client to distribute, nothing... just login to a webpage hosting the game.
I have also been using Construct 2 on and off for quite a while now. I have managed to read and understand the multiplayer general tutorial as well as the chat one. I tried to follow the other ones, but they felt less like tutorials and more like describing what is being done. Unfortunately, I don't get along well with these kind of tutorials so I couldn't finish them or understand much from them. I am one of those people that like hand holding at first (a detailed step by step; do that and do this with explanation) and then I am left to my own devices at the end.
The problem
I would like to use Construct 2 for this project instead of let's say Unity (I have used it for almost a year) as I really like using it and I can get things done MUCH faster than in Unity (I am not a coder at the end of the day). My problems are:
- My guess is the multiplayer aspect of the game isn't done by connecting hosts to peers; you login, find a page and start playing. You can see others around you (think the old, old RuneScape but far less flashy and more primitive of course). So could I do it using Firebase only? Would it be too complicated?
- Which framework works best with this kind of multiplayer; Photon, C2 Muliplayer or Firebase? Why?
- Anyone knows of a tutorial that is written for idiots? I searched high and low for Photon and only found 1 that shows a setup no more. Firebase has no tutorial outside of the setup as well and C2's Multiplayer tutorial aren't step by step at all.
What I am looking for -- not a recruiting request, trust me!
I am looking for help really from the veterans and experts or anyone that knows well what I am talking about. I really, would like someone to put me on the correct road and have a discussion on how this can be done in the least complicated of ways. Aside from the obvious reason that I want to build this for myself, I also would like to use this as a showcase for a course I would like to teach for students in an international school. To cut the story short, I already taught a similar curriculum and I am trying a different method for motivational purposes this time.
Thank you very much in advance and looking forward to your help and discussions.