06-14-2011, 01:54 PM
Update: I have a new laptop arriving tomorrow, which will be my development platform for this little project. (My other machine is many many years old and only good for surfing, and I can't use my company machine.)
Initially I had thought to build out a database in MS Access (which I am pretty familiar with.) But Access has a LOT of quirks. I know the Empyrean Challenge boys are building their new version on it, but I decided to go with something else. (I also would have had to pay $200+ extra for MS Office "professional"!)
Someone here mentioned you can get temporary use of .NET tools for 3 years -- enough time to determine if this would actually be a viable game platform. So I might look into that. Otherwise, are there any suggestions? I have done JSPs before, and I could probably get up to speed on MySQL pretty fast. But is there an open source equivalent to Access? Sort of a rapid-prototyping database development environment?
Initially I had thought to build out a database in MS Access (which I am pretty familiar with.) But Access has a LOT of quirks. I know the Empyrean Challenge boys are building their new version on it, but I decided to go with something else. (I also would have had to pay $200+ extra for MS Office "professional"!)
Someone here mentioned you can get temporary use of .NET tools for 3 years -- enough time to determine if this would actually be a viable game platform. So I might look into that. Otherwise, are there any suggestions? I have done JSPs before, and I could probably get up to speed on MySQL pretty fast. But is there an open source equivalent to Access? Sort of a rapid-prototyping database development environment?