C.B Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I've been looking into developing a simple game, are there many rails developers on here? As soon as the new TLDs start getting rolled out i may have a game to show. For now I have a simple game platform which i will be slowly implementing more features. Is there any demand for text based games any more? I used to play torncity and there seems like theres a lot of people playing the game. Would it be a good idea to develop a new game? Would you play it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 There is still demands for good games. On this website most use PHP, personally I use C# for my RL work and PHP for those "hobbies" here. Ruby on Rails, honestly, I tried it but didn't liked it much. For the playing part, simply I have not much time left to play web games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniko Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 With the hype and market of cellular/mobile applications, and if you utilize that market, then there will be players and profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Someone Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 ^Definitely what Sniko says here. You would be mad if you don't have a game that supports phones and tablets. For the most part that is as simple as serving a separate theme for those users, and not going crazy on javascript I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.B Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 The past few days i;ve been working on a prototype system and have made some sweet progress. On the subject of mobile devises, a responsive design would be required & its never beyond the realms of possibilites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 well, to make it really responsive either you do develop a custom client for your game, and then just transfer the "actions" and "results" or you work more with ajax and reduce the loading from your server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djkanna Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 It may be more beneficial to have stand-alone native apps that interact with your game, for IOS/Android. (But then again, despite the whole mobile first frenzy, it doesn't mean you have to follow suit.) Though still keep in mind a mixture of <caution buzzwords ahead> Adaptive Design and Responsive Design, for every other device being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.B Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 Well rails has great JSON implementation so any AJAX would be relatively straight forward (in theory), however for development sake the first stage would be to create a solid platform.. Currently i'm working on creating some sort of system to increment vitals using a before filter. I used to develop MCCodes and the cronjob system was a joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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