topaz VS forgottenserver

For Topaz-Next, although this is not 100% accurate: https://github.com/topaz-next/topaz/wiki/What-Works

Entirely feasible if you want to put in the effort. There's a full guide of getting both the server and client setup and ready on the archived repo here: https://github.com/topaz-next/topaz/wiki

You can find the wiki for the current fork of the private server software here: https://github.com/topaz-next/topaz/wiki

I recommend just checking out https://otland.net/ to get into the community

Open Source Engine and a very well edited open source client used for the Tibia OT servers and "Pokemon" RPG's you have seen online in the same style, It is the game r/TibiaMMO for those curious on the original game, never played it as I was a Ultima Online player in my early gaming days but it is obvious to anyone who knows about the game.

>Do you mean that more people get into gaming because of modding?

not only - there's almost 25 years old game called Tibia

which has/had strong botting community (shitton of hundreds/thousands of lines in lua/custom languages) that were exping all days

but also private servers / open source community - basically people rewrote game server in cpp with lua scripting capabilities and made it open source

https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver

shitton of people were also involved into databases (mysql or long time ago xml databases) or web applications (mostly php)