If your were going to program a game...

[J Kenneth King]

Tokyo Dan <huffman at tokyo.email.ne.jp> writes:

> If your were going to program a game in python what technologies would
> you use?
>
> The game is a board game with some piece animations, but no movement
> animation...think of a chess king exploding. The game runs in a
> browser in a window of a social site built around the game. The social
> site has login, chat, player stats, list of active games, etc. AND
> there is also be a desktop client that accesses the game server via
> the same communication mechanism (like an AIR-based desktop client/
> app) as the browser-based version - I guess using JSON/RPC.

Ever see chess.com?

I don't know what they're using in the backend, but the client is
entirely javascript.

You could probably roll your own python javascript compiler to suit your
needs. It could probably even build up your own DSL for writing these
games.

It's a worthwhile project and I think there might be support for it from
other developers.