I've been writing little tiny games for fun and I've been wondering about making a word game that can be played across the internet or a local network. I've been reading this forum a little looking for clues as to what's involved but if I saw them I didn't recognize them.
About 25 years ago I did a lot of communications programming for a few years but that was all over a serial port and that is the extent of my experience. I've never dealt with networks at all except as a user.
I have a small home network that I think I can test on by myself.
What I have in mind is a simple word building game. I've already made a solitare version of it and it might work nicely as a two player game. The amount of communication would be minimal so there's no speed issue. I'd like to make it very simple for non-techie peeople to connect to one another and I haven't the slightest idea what's involved in that.
Can anyone give me some ideas about what I'll need to learn and what tools I might need other than PB9, if any, and especially any thoughts on the difficulty of this. I'm retired and I don't want any large projects. I want to do simple things that can be done quickly. I don't mind spending time learning. I just don't want the project itself to be very big.
At this point this is just something I'm wondering if I want to get into but I really don't know where to look for information or what information to look for.
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions you might give me.
Barry
About 25 years ago I did a lot of communications programming for a few years but that was all over a serial port and that is the extent of my experience. I've never dealt with networks at all except as a user.
I have a small home network that I think I can test on by myself.
What I have in mind is a simple word building game. I've already made a solitare version of it and it might work nicely as a two player game. The amount of communication would be minimal so there's no speed issue. I'd like to make it very simple for non-techie peeople to connect to one another and I haven't the slightest idea what's involved in that.
Can anyone give me some ideas about what I'll need to learn and what tools I might need other than PB9, if any, and especially any thoughts on the difficulty of this. I'm retired and I don't want any large projects. I want to do simple things that can be done quickly. I don't mind spending time learning. I just don't want the project itself to be very big.
At this point this is just something I'm wondering if I want to get into but I really don't know where to look for information or what information to look for.
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions you might give me.
Barry
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