Development Platforms

[C.B]

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?

[a_bertrand]

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.

[sniko]

With the hype and market of cellular/mobile applications, and if you utilize that market, then there will be players and profit.

[Someone]

^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.

[C.B]

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.

[a_bertrand]

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.

[Djkanna]

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.

[C.B]

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