Quote Originally Posted by Setsuna View Post
I'm Sam. The original one.
Ohhh yes, I remember the OTHER Sam. :P What ever happened to Jeremy (I think he went by Zero) and Indigo? I had them on Facebook for years but they disappeared. I don't know if they deactivated their accounts or cleaned up their friend list and I got the boot or what. I remember them being the heads of Anfiniti. Did you take over when they gave it up or was it always yours? I didn't really follow it much back then because there was a lot of drama and I just wanted to work on the RPG in peace lol. And I remember Jeremy starting his Omega Vortex company and "hiring" Scott and I and we were going to package and sell the RDE but nothing ever really happened with that.

That's probably for the better. Making your own engine tied to proprietary code can only get you so far. Especially when its tied to a big company like Jelsoft (or whoever owns vB nowadays), and they're itching to obsolete a point release to jump on the bandwagon of some new web technology and satisfy their shareholders. You'll be stuck in the same predicament then.
Exactly, I don't want to rely on a 3rd party for the backbone of the system (register, login, user table, gold management). Every time they upgrade and change something, it breaks the RDE and the code has to be rewritten.

It's just an informational page for now, same as the Anfiniti forum (I'm transitioning hosts and bank accounts). I had a demo instance with glossary up for a while. I'll see about restoring that on my temporary host so you can get a taste of what it will look like. I'm hoping to have a Git for the project by the end of this year.
anfinitinetwork.com/?do=rpg

I followed the link and read your information page. It sounds a lot like me lol. Funny, because we have the same name too. :P RPG Palace and the RDE and FFVII also are what inspired me to create a turn based RPG with PHP and it's how I got into programming. I got busy with work and life and strayed away from it but for the last 10 years, I always looked back and still dreamed of continuing my RDE work and creating an awesome browser based RPG. Just recently, I got the inspiration to go for it and just start small and slowly do what I can. That's why I restored the RDE. It seems like the best way to start, even though I know it's way out-dated and will need to be rebuilt from scratch eventually. Not to mention, the actual system isn't mine and I would never steal someone else's work and try to distribute or sell it. (I know Scott is here now so don't worry man, I know it's still yours. If you lost the files, I will be more than happy to give them back to you, I just want to keep my copy and my rights to the game I created with it haha) But ya, I can use the system to make my game for now and later rebuild my game on a new system if I can ever create my own.