Hello everyone,
I am needing some help on a few things.

1'st, What language[s] should I know that would be best to create a simple browser based game. Kind of like http://www.kingdomofwarlordz.net.

2'nd, Is there any good programs that I should use to create a bb game.

3'rd, Any guides and such that would help me? Please provide links.

4'th, Please post anything else that you think would help.

I just need the help on knowing what to do. Once I learn everything I need I might start making plans and start developing a small game. I already have a few ideas on a game.

Also just incase this is needed, I am wanting this game to be a multiplayer browser based game.

Google PHP. Good luck. ;)

In total, you'll need to learn XHTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL (or MySQL).

-Bryan-

In total, you'll need to learn XHTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL (or MySQL).

-Bryan-

Thank you. I know Most of HTML, and XHTML. And a little CSS.

I am notsure CSS would be all that important, you don't need the Cascading Style Sheets unless you are going to make extra skins and all that. But php, html, mysql are your most important. XTML is a very important one as well.

XHTML is an updated type of HTML. You have to use one or the other. If you choose to use XHTML, you need to use CSS (as is noted in the DTD). I suggest XHTML over HTML, as it is the current standard.

-Bryan-

Although you can write web-apps in virtually any programming language, one like PHP or Perl is probably the easiest route. I also recommend knowledge of CSS; with a component-heavy display and layout of most webgames, it's a real time-saver and makes for generally cleaner code.

i think prety much every things been said but heres a free web host that can support php and mysql http://www.orgfree.com/
and w3schools would be the best place to learn the most basic php and mysql
php functions list :D http://www.php.net/quickref.php
and heres some open source pre-built stuff to mess around with to help you learn how php works
http://coding.phpground.net/downloads-cat4.html
but make your own code when you create your game.

No no no, you don’t need CSS because you want to add extra skins or because xhtml makes it necessary. The reason you want to learn CSS is because without it, html doesn’t have enough/code tags for designing that great of website that match average quality seen in today’s powerful browsers. If you want to have a fairly nicely designed site or even simply designed with less work, you'll need to learn CSS. CSS is what makes the difference between today's websites and WebPages designed 8+ years ago. Not only will CSS allow you to design your site uniquely, but it will give you some great transferable skills if you decide to pursue a hobby/job in web design, also the Cascading Style Sheets allow you to basically setup a template for your webpage, so that every time you design a webpage it just includes the overall design and you edit the content. This is convenient because you do not have to redesign ever new page you want to add and rewrite the same code, this is why CSS is so important for people that are especially designing a browser based game as it’s the type of website that requires a large amount of reuse of the original page design/images/style.

As for guides and links for what you will need to in order to start learning additional skills that will make designing this browser game easier, you can try this place:

http://www.w3schools.com/

This is only a start though, before you can even really proceed into actually making the game play features/mechanics that build the browser game, your going to need to design your site and CSS is the way to go. I would recommend trying to learn PHP/JS at the same time while your designing the game visually, as for what you should use I would recommend PHP as it is a faster, easy to use/learn language that is quickly getting more powerful and gaining support for use as the number one webpage scripting language. If you have any more questions, need more information or clarification of some the points I made than feel free to add me to msn or email at fast_traxx@hotmail.com

Hope to hear back from you,

-PB

ok. obviously some people have yet to read the specs on xhtml. if you use xhtml, you NEED to use css if you want to do anything other than define content. otherwise it's just html. it's like someone wanting to make a comic book with just photoshop. it can be done, but to do anthing of any value, you need indesign (or quarkXpress) as well (especially for type).

granted i understand what you're hinting at and i agree, but that doens't that the above isn't true.

-Bryan-

xhtml is nothing but a revised version of html were you have to use complete clean closed tags and code, css has nothing to do with xhtml in most cases, html and xhtml are the same thing, they arent 2 different languages. Xhtml is nothing but a certification that your code is clean and will run properly on all browsers. All the set style variables are declared before the rest of the page code is even read, it than requires css code to post everything designed in the style.

you know, that's just a different way of saying what i just said. that doesn't make css any less important to xhtml though. it's also the best route to go in my opinion.

-Bryan-