Ok, so I know you have heard this a billion times before. I also realize it will take years before I even get a game going, but I think it sounds cool and I want to try it out. (mostly for the coding, its fun)

Anyways, what I wanted to know is what do you guys think is the best language for me to learn if I want to make a multiplayer online game. I have searched around and it opinions seemed devided.


Also if you guys know of any tutorials it would be great, I'm sure there are already some great ones on here.

Thanks bunches,

Axel

Alright,

It is really a hype to code a MMORPG or something in that way since the introduction of World of Warcraft.
It is really hard to program an online multiplayer game all by yourself.
Do you have any programming experience?

If you are new to programming i recommend Freebasic.
It is free downloadable at www.freebasic.net and have a great community.
(All open source)

With this language you can learn to program and since it comes with a lot of libraries for DirectX, OpenGl, SDL, Allegro you could start to program your own games. First try to make an Tetris clone or something and than a game like Final Fantasy 2, 2d and turnbased.

When you are able to do this, the step to an online game is much more simple. An online game is actually a single player game who gets its data from a server, so when your 2d RPG Final Fantasy clone is working, it is not to hard to transform it in an Online RPG.

When your not a beginner, the most common language is C++.
I recommend DevC++ from Bloodshed since that is open source and I guess you are not working for a commercial company.

Hope to have helped you,

And show us something when you finished a game (which is kind of hard even for a tetris clone...)

Hey thanks a lot man. Sorry for not telling you. I have some experience in C++ and I already have DevC++ so thats good I guess. I'm going to check out that link though. It sounds great.

Thanks. Anymore advice