Well I left this out, but I have programming experience for years with Python, PHP, HTML, Java etc as well, so I should be able to pick it up as well! :D Do you think after doing a few tutorials, plus adding new features and getting practice, you would be able to make a game of another genre with th...

Kaos, I am so inspired by this. I hope you are still working with Flash! Give us some updates on your current projects. Did you learn Flash game creation from ASgamer.com from scratch, or did you learn from a book too? If yes, what tutorials on the site did you use? I want to be able to make a game ...

That's awesome, thanks again I'll give it another shot. Also, how do I use FlashDevelop? Should I be doing my actionscript coding in it, then saving those actionscript files in the directory of my game project, and when I learn (again) how to link an actionscript document to a symbol, do that?

Wow nice answer thanks man. So you think that book is definitely a best-practice way to get me up and running? I know I'm not capable of Elona Shooter or Bubble Tanks-type quality yet but with practice and experience a book like that can eventually get me on the path to making games like that?

I just want to make a basic game right now, single player. I have been programming for a while, and I have a level-head. I know MMORPGs aren't feasible without real skill and knowledge. I'd like to help everyone here with flash stuff too, but I need to learn myself first. Also, I think I read once t...

Thanks Jack, I appreciate you linking me to some books that could be good for learning. I own this one, http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Flash-Game-Development-Practices/dp/024081178X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297350802&sr=1-2 but it's quite advanced and not enjoyable to read. I ha...

I'd get to work on this right away if I could finally figure out where a websocket server would run from. I have messed with creating client and server programs in python, but I have never owned my own web server that could have a server application running on it. I've used WAMP and XAMP before too,...

Genaga, is your Silverlight application running as a Socket client to a Socket Server somewhere, and if so what language is the socket server programmed in? If not, can you explain the backend connectivity? Silverlight front-end connecting just to a database pulling data every 500ms - 1 second using...

Wow... just read online that even 100,000 records in a database table is considered small by todays standards.

"...I have databases with 2+ GB of data, with some tables containing over 1 million rows and I consider that being somewhere between small and medium size."

Hi everyone, I was thinking for an hour about whether or not I should save maps as individual cells in a database table or load in a flat-file XML document. I eventually decided on the database table, until I started actually creating the structure. It seemed fine until I realized I wanted a 3-layer...