Question about games...

Hi, I want to create a game that let's users play eachother over the internet. Anybody have any ideas on how to go about doing this?

Also, which is the best language to program the game in? I was thinking java/javascript but would visual basic/vbscript be better?

I would like to take user stats and put them in a Access DB. My site uses ASP/VBscript so does that mean the only way to take stats from a game is to make it in vbscript?Is there a way to convert things from java/javascript to vb/vbscript?

Also, this is just out of curiosity but why do some scripts not run good in mozilla fire fox and is mozilla going to fix this?

Well, the big reason some scripts might not run so good is because mozilla does not support VBScript, and I doubt they ever fully will. Despite microsofts best efforts, the standard for client side scripting is javascript. Beyond that, the different scripts run a bit differently if you use javascript because mozilla is trying matching the W3C specs and microsoft isn't.

I'll admit, mozilla isn't all the way there yet, but if it's in the W3C specs, you can bet they're heading in that direction

you should try to stick with the Document.GetItemByID("IdName") method when calling css or other objects methods, to change background colours or whatever on the fly, since both browsers support it pretty well.

As for over the internet games like your talking about... I'd suggest you use java, but that is only because I've used it for network games before and I know it's not too hard.

I'd suggest you use RMI if you chose java, you'll have to look it up, but it is a really easy way of getting a client app to talk to the server app, which isn't your web-server but can be running on the same machine. Yes you can talk to your access server using Java, look up JDBC. I'd suggest that you don't do this in the scripts, but rather in your Server app

BTW, you can also use Javascript and VBScript on the same site if you want as well.

Anyway, not sure this is the perfect place for this post, but I guess it got answered anyway

good luck,

-mwalts