Help.. what to use for text base game?

[ShePlays]

Hi all. I came across this site while researching how to code a text based game.
I have several ideas for a couple games but I thought I would try a text based browser game first. I play a couple of them and they are cool.. but a little lacking.

Anyway.. to the main point. I haven't done game coding before but I have made webpages with html in the past but I am rather rusty.
What are the best programs to use to code a text game and I will be looking through this site for tutorials on coding.

Thanks for your time.

SP

[dbest]

My first text based game was developed using PHP as the server side language, mySQL as the database, a bit of jquery for the client side processing.
Most of the coding was done in Notepad++.

[espe]

Hey,

im pretty new to this coding things too
Ill hotlink to you what i did the last months...

Choosed an webhoster/webspace (paid or free, google it)
Choosed an editor (im using notepad++ too)
Choosed an ftp client (i like filezilla as well)

Learned PHP basics (if you already know html, css):
http://tut.php-quake.net/en/

Think about game design (not optical) and database design as well (have fun, will take a while):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

Watched some videos (i watched others coz im german, but hells videos are good)
http://www.indie-resource.com/forums/vi ... =33&t=4163

Start coding, NOT COPYING. You will know how to successfully learn. Reading, hearing, watching, trying... ur choice.

Never give up!

[Jackolantern]

The thing we always suggest for people wanting to make a PBBG (a mostly text-based web multiplayer RPG/RTS) has never changed! And that is Halls' Browser MMO Tutorial Series. It is quite long and in-depth now. Watch it at least to video 14 before writing any code, because many, many questions are answered as you move forward. That and you will have a much better idea of how to code PHP by the time you get to video 14 or higher, allowing you to make less mistakes and fix the ones you do make much easier.