More books

So I've been planning some more stuff out for how the game is going to work, but I'm going to have to have a better idea of what to use on the server side.  I've been talking about it with some of my computer science friends and while some of the students see no problem with using PHP for the server programming, one of the guys (who actually works with a lot of server programming) recommended specifically not using PHP to handle anything at all because it's completely unthreaded.

He recommended something like Java with EJB3 or something more like that.  I've only taken enterprise server programming courses in .NET (which seems pretty similar with the whole "not caring about what the client is" deal and the whole "on an application server" thing), but I don't want to have to spend money getting that from Microsoft if I actually start making money.  1 student license probably won't cut it.

So, I went and picked up a couple of books on some JEE stuff, a book called EJB3 in Action and JAVA Concurrency in Practice.  That last one is just for a bit of fun.

Looks like a got quite a bit of learning ahead of me!

As a side note, I think I may have found an artist for the game. I still have to send him a message about what kind of stuff I need done up (probably after my midterm tomorrow), but I've seen some of his work and it's good.

Not all business

So, same as my other post for my body blog, I've noticed that I want to blog about more than just my business ideas.  This is the other project I've been considering for this summer and onwards.  I've got a love for old video games (mostly SNES games) and some of my best childhood memories are from having parties with my friends, playing Super Bomberman 3.  It was one of the only games we had that took our 5-player adapter for the SNES and allowed us to play 5 player games.  It was so awesome at the time.


This blog is going to cover me learning about how to use Android with the goal of making a game in the bomberman battle mode style.  Ultimately, I'd like to release the game for cheap and allow up to 5 players to play battle mode multiplayer.

Many of the posts will probably about designing the game while I figure Android out, and only after a while will the blog turn to my game itself.