Engines for spreadsheet video games

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I am currently playing Romance of the 3 kingdom 6 and I always found that these kind of games could be easy to program. Most of the game consist in having a data base with lot of information, show a portion of that information to the user with a UI and give the user actions to modify that information.

I know that there are some video game engines out there that allows you to easily make old school video games without too much programming. But I was wondering if there was actually other engine for managing spreadsheet games.

I think the most elegant solution would be to have an engine that makes it a web browser game. It would be easier to make custom user interfaces.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

But I was wondering if there was actually other engine for managing spreadsheet games.
There is. It's called Eve Online.

 

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Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

http://www.pysoy.org/

Client based cloud game that runs in your browser

 

genre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike

 

note it doesn't have to use ascii, there are open-source tile sets and you can even use OpenGL to render your own much more complex screens (see libtcod). 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

pysoy is just too much because it's a 3d engine video game. I was more looking for something to manage command an information that would be closely tied to a SQL database.

This is why I suggested a web based solution because I think it could be easily implemented with a wiki and a MySQL Database. Players could install their game locally pretty easily with EasyPHP.

The only thing is if I need to manage multiple real players (not AI), I need a way for each player to send their command and wait for other players to finish (refresh a page, or java script).