.Net PBBG

[hallsofvallhalla]

Just curious on thoughts about this. I know many people say it is not a good platform but I would think it is better than PHP. Better OOP language and VS IDE. Would there be any interest in this? A open source web game or a "engine" build with C#.

[Jackolantern]

I think ASP.NET MVC would be great for a PBBG. However, Web Forms I feel would greatly complicate things if you intended to have a lot of client-side code.

[a_bertrand]

I would say both MVC and web forms could be a good options as well as plain web services served as ajax backend for a JS script. Yet as I don't have an hosting for .NET and Mono is sub par, I will not develop in .NET for my hobbies web games.

[hallsofvallhalla]

yeah that is the biggest issue is finding a good host

[Jackolantern]

Windows shared hosting knocks out free hosts for the most part, but from what I have seen, a Windows shared host can sometimes cost only a couple of extra bucks over a pay Linux one. They definitely aren't 5x more expensive or anything, like some people online make it sound.

[selfproclaimed]

I am wondering if this all would be possible under mono? So that it could be cross platform?

I have very little experience with mono my self but it would be interesting.

[hallsofvallhalla]

Well the game itself could be played on any machine regardless. Building it however would need to use mono to be cross platform

[Jackolantern]

I am with Bertrand on Mono. I am not a fan. It isn't that it is incredibly different. The problem is that it is about 97% compliant. But that 3% can really cause some problems. It also floats several versions behind the official Windows releases.

Also, using Mono, you would have to get a VPS or better since you would probably have to install Mono yourself (unless there are some Mono hosts out there I am not aware of). So that would push your costs actually higher than using a Windows shared host. You may get better performance, though, since VPS > shared hosting.

[a_bertrand]

A base windows hosting is pretty cheap:
http://www.lunarpages.com/hosting/web/basic/windows

Or you could also use Azure (MS own solution).

However NEVER take the mono route.... it's simply a way to kill yourself under unknown stability issues and poor performances.

I used mono for wsirc before, and it was crashing every 10 min or so. Even at work, we need to reboot all the mono systems every nights to have a somewhat stable solution and not have a process running all the time, but like starting and ending via crons. Not a good solution for me.

[hallsofvallhalla]

wow yeah the prices have come down a ton.