A good programing language in Off Topic

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May 22 2012, 4:39 am
Hello, I'm searching for a good and easy language to do 2D Games, like BYOND/Tibia.
Do you know some?
Tell me!
Thanks.
#1 May 22 2012, 4:57 am
DM.
#2 May 22 2012, 5:01 am
Game Maker.

As far as I know, anything besides Game Maker and DM is either:

1. A lot more difficult
2. A lot crappier ( RPG Maker for instance )
#3 May 22 2012, 5:33 am
Hum.
I need more opinions.
Come on people D:
#4 May 22 2012, 6:59 am
You're on byond. Go for that. DM is easy to learn (as opposed to a lot of the others) and it's FREE!
#5 May 22 2012, 8:51 am
Java is seriously awesome.
#6 May 22 2012, 9:01 am
For 2D games? Ehhh ... as much as I do love the language, it's not my first choice for such an application, particularly for a developer who I would think, is looking for a RAD style framework for 2D games more-so than general language skills.
#7 May 22 2012, 9:05 am
I had similar basic byond client functionality in one night with java. Tile system, entities interacting, etc...

check it out at http://www.joeysturgis.com/roguelike
#8 May 22 2012, 9:07 am
What are you using for that? I assume it's not just layered on top of Graphics2D?
#9 May 22 2012, 9:07 am
It is directly java2d (canvas on applet, bufferstrategy)
#10 May 22 2012, 9:09 am
For one evening that's not bad, certainly. Is this something you'd be happy to share the source code for, to allow people a bit of a look as to what Java dev is like? I have plenty of non-gaming things, but they hardly seem appropriate to show here.
#11 May 22 2012, 9:14 am
Sharing all the source would be scary... I'll paste bin the level class :D

http://pastebin.com/k8YJja7r
#12 May 22 2012, 9:23 am
Much obliged. Gives people a good idea of what Java looks like, what an evening's work might produce (although I am assuming general programming experience on your part helped there), that sort've thing.
#13 May 22 2012, 9:28 am
Yeah. DM is cake compared to java, obviously. But if you don't want to use DM, there's what you're in for with pretty much ANY language.
#14 May 24 2012, 12:25 pm
Olol. Python.
#15 May 24 2012, 1:23 pm
Wdragon_13 wrote:
I discovered that Python is almost the same as DM :D

In what ways?