03-23-2011, 05:10 AM
Hey Hatch,
I've also checked out your website and blog. Your game sounds a great idea and wish you every luck with it.
We're (Gad Games) also in the process of developing our own game for the web. A fantasy RPG. It is called Ilkor: Dark Rising and we hope to have a beta release for the public at the end of the year.
I was interested in learning about your chosen technologies. I'm surprised you might not be catering for IE. Personally I am a Chrome user, but you'll be ruling out a fairly large user base. Whether we like it or not, IE has the majority of the market. The fact you are using JQuery should allow you to be far less concerned with browser compatibility. Not so?
For interest sake, we're using a C# MVC implementation. JQuery is our client-side framework aswell, but we're targeting HTML5 and CSS3. This is largely to do with the requirement to make use of the new browser features such as a client-side datastore (great for caching map and player data) and of course the canvas which we're using to render our maps.
It does mean only the new browsers will work with our game, but by this time next year the majority of the browsers out there will support the features we're coding against.
We're using two types of databases. MongoDb for the map and SQL for all other data entities. In-between the SQL DB and our server-side logic we're using Memcache for our caching solution.
We've a number of other 'bits and pieces' but the above is our high level artchitecture...oh and we've gone for a 'long polling' client-side implementation for our async calls.
How are you planning to handle mapping? I would serious suggest you look into HTML5 / Canvas and MongoDb.
Cheers,
Sean.
I've also checked out your website and blog. Your game sounds a great idea and wish you every luck with it.
We're (Gad Games) also in the process of developing our own game for the web. A fantasy RPG. It is called Ilkor: Dark Rising and we hope to have a beta release for the public at the end of the year.
I was interested in learning about your chosen technologies. I'm surprised you might not be catering for IE. Personally I am a Chrome user, but you'll be ruling out a fairly large user base. Whether we like it or not, IE has the majority of the market. The fact you are using JQuery should allow you to be far less concerned with browser compatibility. Not so?
For interest sake, we're using a C# MVC implementation. JQuery is our client-side framework aswell, but we're targeting HTML5 and CSS3. This is largely to do with the requirement to make use of the new browser features such as a client-side datastore (great for caching map and player data) and of course the canvas which we're using to render our maps.
It does mean only the new browsers will work with our game, but by this time next year the majority of the browsers out there will support the features we're coding against.
We're using two types of databases. MongoDb for the map and SQL for all other data entities. In-between the SQL DB and our server-side logic we're using Memcache for our caching solution.
We've a number of other 'bits and pieces' but the above is our high level artchitecture...oh and we've gone for a 'long polling' client-side implementation for our async calls.
How are you planning to handle mapping? I would serious suggest you look into HTML5 / Canvas and MongoDb.
Cheers,
Sean.
(03-23-2011, 02:33 AM)Hatch Wrote:(03-22-2011, 10:19 PM)Ramblurr Wrote: What language/framework are you using on the back end? I see you're using SQL for storage and JQuery as a frontend JS lib.
PHP, Javascript with JQuery, and MySQL. No framework. I'm writing everything from scratch other than a few things involving JQuery, although I did use an free login/registration script, which I may end up replacing in the end.
I use Notepad++ with the FTP plugin as my IDE. I'm using Chrome and FF as my browsers. I really dislike IE and may end up putting code in the game to tell people who get to the main page with IE to GTFO.
Hatch
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