Thanks Suetan. I'll definitely look into compatibility between the two.

Nice responses guys, since I know some php I think I'll stick to it and dive into AJAX. Definitely seems to be the solution to lifting the load off the server.

If you guys have anything else to...

This web game of mine is going to be purely text based so I don't think I'll need to go as far as using C# or Java unless it can be used to process things from and to a MySQL database faster than PHP...

Thanks for the responses. I do have some MySQL knowledge that I could use. Didn't realise C++ was used for web. Guess you learn something new every day.

Hi Phaelax

The game will be text-based. No real time functionality. There will be turn-based functionality whereby a player will have x amount of time to retaliate (e.g 30mins). The game will be a...

Hi there

I've had a bee in my bonnet for a little while now and I've decided to get the ball rolling on creating my own web-based RPG game. But I'm not sure what the best route is with a...