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Post by andypuck on Jan 16, 2011 22:44:39 GMT -5
Alright, so I don't know if this board or the "Fan Games" board is the ideal place to start a brainstorming thread, but I'm going to give it a shot regardless. Bear with me a minute.
As I stated in my audition, I wanted to create a web-based version of a Millionaire game. I originally stated that I wouldn't want to use Flash, but I have since put that back into the realm of possibility; I'll explain why below.
I was going through one of leimeisei's videos a while back when he first introduced the server software for his season 7 game. I noticed that the server software was developed in Visual Studio 2010, meaning that it could, potentially, be ported to ASP.NET code, suitable for use on a webserver.
That server software connected via TCP socket (I think) to a Flash file which displayed the game. What I'm thinking is, if the questions were stored on, for instance, a Microsoft SQL Server (commonplace for ASP.NET applications), then the game could very well be hosted online, sort of like for an online test or stuff (a la Jeopardy's online test).
Does this sound too farfetched or did I actually make some sense? hahaha
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Post by Randydorney on Jan 16, 2011 23:06:13 GMT -5
Actually, to me it made sense on the technical side of things. Doesn't sound far fetched and could be possible to be pulled off!
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Post by ThePaSch on Jan 17, 2011 2:53:33 GMT -5
Java could also very much be a possibility. In fact, I currently have such a (don't know if you could call it like that) "game" on my computer. A friend of mine programmed it, and I showed some of it in this thread. I'm afraid I can't release it, but I can at least say how it works. A server applet is running on a remote location. That applet is just serving as a graphical interface, but of course you could add interaction to it. The questions are not stored within the server, instead, they're sent by the admin-client. You can either type in questions as the game progresses, or you can import a question file, which makes it pretty easy to edit or add question. Also, if a typo has sneaked itself into the question file, you can also edit the question before you send it to the server. TL;DR: It's also doable in Java, with an advantage lying in animations being relatively easier to do than in other programming languages.
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