Has anyone played "Game Dev Story"?

[s0meone]

It's a sim on the iphone and android phones and it's extremely addicting. Did they use Javascript to make it? I have some ideas I'd like to try out if its something I can grasp. Thanks

[Jackolantern]

Yes, I have seen it. It was surely made in Objective-C since that is the native language of the iPhone/iPod Touch. The engine itself was probably made from scratch.

[s0meone]

Thanks for the info. Would you suggest I attempt a sim in objective-C or would Java or Flash be better?

[Jackolantern]

What game programming/other development experience do you have?

[s0meone]

Only what I've picked up from Halls php tutorials

[Jackolantern]

You should start much smaller then. Something like Game Dev Story is a huge project that would require an advanced knowledge of code organization (read: Object Oriented Programming + design patterns + best practices). If you want to start down the path of traditional game development and move away from PHP and web development, you will need to start small and try making something simple like a pong clone in any of those languages, then try something like Tetris or breakout, etc. Keep scaling your projects up until you can make a sim. It will take time, but jumping into a large project like that now with basically no experience in development is an exercise in futility.

As far as the language goes, any of those languages would be capable of making a game like that. If you want to make an iPhone app, you should really do it on an Intel-based Mac in Objective-C so you can put it on the App Store. The other options I believe require jailbroken iPhones since Apple shot down Flash's iPhone compiler.

[s0meone]

Looks like I have quite a bit of work ahead of me. Gives me more time to fine tune my ideas though. Thanks