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Advice About Making A Text Based Game I got my Astahost account in hopes of making a multi-player, online, text-based game in real time. What I need help with is the programming side of things, a little advice really. I talk to the maker of a similar type game that I play, and he suggested I learn PHP with MySQL and ASP, and I cant really remember if he said anything else. I have been playing around a little with PHP and only dabbled with MySQL, but I know nothing of ASP except that it stands for Active Server Pages. So basically, the advice I'm looking for is, what kinds of scripting/coding would people think I should use for this type of game? I plan on having a shoutbox somewhere, some kind of forum-like thing, it would have many menus to choose from with sub-catagories. There would be pictures involved also, and definitly it would need a registration/login page and some way to track users. There is more involved, but its late and I'm getting sleepy. With that info, what do people think? Maybe I'm asking to much, but thanks for any input.