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.net can make sense if you plan to have multiple sites under a given name. Anyhow domain names are not the most important things out there (even if a lot of SEO companies will tell you something else). What counts is that people can reach you and I doubt many will type the URL at least at first.

The hangman is really not difficult and all intermediate PHP coder if not new coders should manage to do it. Check this article it should give you enough ideas: http://makewebgames.io/content.php/144-From-theory-to-a-game

well the hangman has been described in one of my articles... so should not be too hard

You mean the hangman is too hard?

Here is a couple of small project which should be done for training. If you fail doing them, try something easier or read some documentation. I'm willing also to help you with some concept (in PM or yet better in chat) but will not do them for you!   Create a page which ask what's your name, once you submit it will show "Hello " + your name. Create a page which ask you to guess a number between 0-100 and which will answer you "bigger", "smaller" or correct. For this the script must remember somehow the number randomly picked, so you may start with a first version with a static number. Create a page which let you show a list of names out of a database. So create a table, fill in some data, and then display it. Improve the previous project display page with an add, delete and update of the rows. Create and hangman game. Create a login / register pages. Login must control the match of 2 passwords, check if this username already exists etc. If the registration fails it must return to the registration, keep the fields filled and display an error message. The login must say "unknown username or password" if either the password or the username are wrong. Create a mini game with 2 kind of accounts, one admin, the second the player, the admin shall be able to create new "events" which are displayed to the player like "you gained $x gold", where $x will be replaced by a random number, the player will see those messages but will not do much more. If you need more projects let me know but I believe those shall be enough to train in most of the areas which are required to create a web game. As said, if you fail at those, you will hardly succeed to create a web game, so doing them is a good training.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_substr

it means simply you don't supply the value to the crID whatever it is... maybe your script should receive from a GET or POST?

So they released it without posting even here? Smart....

Well, for most developers it should be actually easier to start with C# / ASP.NET instead of PHP. For Smart phone and tablets, beside for windows phone or windows based one I doubt you will really use C# (even if it's possible).

Seems that finally C# popularity went above PHP at least for once month and at last by reading such "index". Note that this is not a completely true value, it's just a way to get the popularity of a programing language and does not reflect what companies uses for development. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Shows also that Objective-C (used mainly for iPhone / iPad development) starts to be very popular. Hard to not be due to the amount of people buying such devices. It shows however that somehow PHP is loosing ground, which actually doesn't surprise me so much. Why? Because I believe people starts to be slowly annoyed by it. PHP 5.3 is again un-compatible (as the switch from 4 to 5) which means many many scripts will not work anymore. Do you really believe people want to re-code or fix codes made by others? I highly doubt it. Also I don't see much ground breaking things going on with PHP either. Sad, but beside the development of an incredible number of frameworks, the main bases changes little (beside those breaking changes). You may think many frameworks are good, well I personally think it's bad. Why? Well imagine you want to integrate multiple scripts to build your website and suddenly you need to start to work with 2, 3 or even more different frameworks which may start to be really heavy. Also, those frameworks are some time so complex that mastering one is already a science, mastering multiple is nearly impossible, yet hiring a developer which has the knowledge of that particular framework may starts to be very difficult => market fragmentation. Without saying that a framework can disapear from one day to the other. Overall, I really believe PHP starts to be good only for UNI / private usage, but as soon as you go to company development PHP loose and will loose yet more market. But all those are my own opinions, please feel free to share yours ;)

For those of us which are geek and like to smile: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt Don't stop reading after the first few lines... read at least until you see something about a pig.

Well hard to define a price without knowing how much work your project will be, so you must at least define like a requirements list of your project such that the interested developers can put a price on.

Ok, first of all, wrong design, ALL comments should be in one single table and not in multiple tables. The design you choose will make it simply harder to continue to work with it. Anyhow if you want to "glue" multiple tables one after the other the command is UNION so: [mysql] SELECT * FROM TABLE1 UNION SELECT * FROM TABLE2 UNION SELECT * FROM TABLE 3; [/mysql] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/union.html Again I would personally re-design your site / tables to have a single table for all comments.

MdShare talked to me about this game: http://us.bigpoint.com/games/bgo He said at first it was HTML 5... sadly I must say he was completely wrong here, as this is a Unity 3D game! So no HTML 5 / JS game here, it's done using a special plugin. Yet the game lacks of... how to say, feeling of 3D full immersion. Sad... But cool to see a first complete commercial game using unity 3D.

McCode was certainly not the first engine out there. Simply you didn't found another ;)

what exactly do you need to do? If you explain your problem maybe we can give a better way to approach it. Also, selecting from multiple tables is not an issue as long as you have some way to join them.

Seems a bit stupid for me to have a table for comments valid just for a single page and create another one for another page. Where conditions are there exactly to limit the results to what you are interested in, in this case the page you are displaying. Also as far I'm aware of, you cannot insert something into multiple tables at the same time.

Maybe you must synchronize your computer clocks?

For companies you can use google to search. Ask many offers and compare them. For how I do it, you can read my articles, I write there what I did. Affiliates like referred players or what?

I would not use Google as primary advert platform due to the low number of registrations resulting from it and therefore the high price pro registrations. There is much better options out there than that. Also, if you have such budgets, and little knowledge I would personally go through a professional advertisement company and see what they proposes.

Well, searching is always a good idea: http://makewebgames.io/showthread.php/36153-Advert-experiences-and-feeback http://makewebgames.io/content.php/134-How-to-tell-that-you-exist Also, you didn't said if you have a some budget for advertisement or not. If you have something big over 10'000$ or even more then some companies can certainly build a campaign for you.

Well simply upgrade to the latest version of McCode (if you are using this) and you will be safe.

well, sockets are not accessible via JS, so no that's not doable. Second, I hardly see the benefit of having a virtual machine inside my browser, already virtual machines are slower and don't emulate 100% of the features, if yet they would be A LOT slower I doubt people would use them, without talking that those machines would work as long as you have the browser window open. Also saving and loading state, I hardly see how he could manage it. So I stay with my mind, it is currently a fun thing, but not really useful.

Well it's not completely true... http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/ http://www.codebase.es/jsgb/ http://www.kingsquare.nl/jsc64 http://www.chiptune.com/ Etc... That means a lot of emulators have been already created with JS. Honestly there is not much you can do with them today and wonder what could be the interest in a couple of years, currently it is just... toys.

That's exactly why those big companies are lying and you could actually sue them. Why? Because they promise something and at the end of the day it's way not the same thing. Telling me it's unlimited bandwidth and then as soon as I make more than 100Gb per month to ask to move to a dedicated server is not unlimited. You see what I mean? So if somebody advertise here, I would point out the weakness of his / her offer, mainly to help not to flame as I will hardly move my own stuff on shared hosts anymore.