[casual_games] What's a good language?

[Donald Bahlman]

Thanks Robert!  Those are some pretty cool tricks.  ;)
Interestingly enough, I've been thinking of migrating towards a more "rounded" look in our next design.

Thanks also John.  I'm also a firm supporter of open source.

And thanks Lionel.  Sorry for your distress over the "blinking stuff".  :)  We didn't think it was that annoying especially since it highlights our New Games and is in a remote area of our site.  Nonetheless! you've given me something to think about and I appreciate that.

Donald

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Headley 
  To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List 
  Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [casual_games] What's a good language?


  Judging by most myspace profiles, I would say... yeah, limited to a particularly demographic, but you still want them to visit your site ;)

  I suggest you switch to a tabbed interface (yeah bland, but browsable)

  something like nifty corners http://pro.html.it/esempio/nifty/
  might be useful for you as well.


  On 4/14/06, Lionel Barret De Nazaris <lionel.bdn at free.fr> wrote:
    Well, for a web site, CSS is mandatory.

    I am quite wary of the AJAX hype, but knowing javascript is always good.
    It is a modern language quite different than the class based java & c++.
    It is based on a different paradigm (prototype). Beside it is very 
    useful to enhance one's website (without even thinking about AJAX).

    Another pick would be python (my personal fav), this one is a
    shapeshifter : you can do OOP if you want, functional, etc...
    it Looks almost bland at first sight, but after a while, you realize it 
    is hiding a lot of cool stuff (generator, decorator, etc.). It does have
    have a lot of web creation/management modules (web.py, etc...).

    I looked at your site, and i am quite surprised : the blinking stuff is 
    quite annoying and i thought it was really a bad idea nowadays to put
    something blinking on a web site. Do you feel it adds something
    sales-wise ? maybe the statement blink=bad is limited to a demographic,
    I wonder. 
    L.

    On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 17:20 -0500, Donald Bahlman wrote:
    > Hi all.
    >
    > I do so enjoy this group.
    >
    > I have a (maybe not so) simple question to ask.  I am in the process
    > of redesigning my website.  As I am a HTML and Java kind of guy, I 
    > have realized that it may be time to expand into another language so
    > we can streamline and do more cool stuff on our site.  (I'd like to
    > kill two birds with one stone: 1) Learn a new language myself, and 2) 
    > Rollout the new site with that language.)  Right now our focus is
    > primarily based on the download model.  And it seems we are evolving
    > into more of a portal site as well.
    >
    > So, what would you guys recommend? PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl, AJAX, etc.? 
    > or stay with HTML?
    >
    > And what do you guys find useful, fast and flexible on your sites?
    >
    > Any comments would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks everyone!
    >
    > Donald Bahlman, CEO/Founder 
    > xBlitz Entertainment
    >
    > www.xblitz.com
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