Online CCG programming help

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Gwarnokyon

Posted 18 April 2010 - 06:54 PM

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My friend and I are looking for a popular language for programming a collectible card game like 'Magic the Gathering', 'Elements', 'Yu-gi-oh', etc...

The main thing is this. In all honesty, we really do not know squat about programming. My friend knows some things from working with Python through Blender. We are looking to have the game/engine cross platform AND cross platform editable. (We don't want to limit online users to having only a Win system or Linux system, we want everyone to be able to play). ((In example, Flash apps will run on Linux and Mac, but they can not be created on those systems without emulation.))

So my plea for help is here. Flash, Python, Java, Perl.... The game will be graphical with small animations and sounds. What programming language would best fit the bill?

Both my friend and I can learn quite rapidly. Can anyone toss out some suggestions???

Thank you all!

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Gwarnokyon

Posted 18 April 2010 - 08:16 PM

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I would like to stress the fact that we are not looking for someone to program this for us.... So please do not let that deter you from replying...

Thanks!

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WingedPanther

Posted 19 April 2010 - 07:45 AM

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So far, almost any language will work. That said, python and perl usually aren't installed on Windows systems, while Java is. You could also use C++ with a cross-platform GUI toolkit.

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instantcake

Posted 19 April 2010 - 05:18 PM

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WingedPanther said:

So far, almost any language will work. That said, python and perl usually aren't installed on Windows systems, while Java is. You could also use C++ with a cross-platform GUI toolkit.

If you don't know squat about programming c++ isn't a great way to start (My first language was C I should know) actually if you have a python program you can install python with it, And going the python root pygame is definitely the easiest way to go, and also the easyest to learn.
News pygame - python game development
going the c++ way you might try allegro (END_OF_MAIN for example)
Allegro - A game programming library
but it is kind of weird.
If you need 3d then you might want to try Panda3D
Panda3D - Free 3D Game Engine
but that's much harder than the other two. but it also has bindings for c++ and python so you can go anyway you want to