FLASH: Flash for multiplayer games w/ dbase connection

[Irfan Uygur]

Hi to everbody,

	i'm planning to develop some hybrid-flash games (something like backgammon,

chess) where two players

will simultaneously be playing the games. I wonder if somebody has done

something similar to this

thing so that he/she will advice me on the pitfalls, tips and tricks.

	i'm planning to use Flash with PHP as the server-side language and MySQL as

the database part.

i know that making a game something like this would be better done in java

but unfortunately

i don't have much java knowledge.

	i'm thinking of mainly using the flash for the graphical parts and

animation and for some

game-rule checking (like where the various pieces are allowed to go on the

chess-board), and planning to

communicate to  PHP for updating the users movements for the cross-playing

people. Something like

if i play my bishop send the moving piece info from flash to php through

hidden HTML input fields and update

this movement for the other user (from PHP to hidden HTML input fields and

from there to flash)

and finally i'm relying on PHP-MySQL to hold the players' scores, open chess

boards, number of open games, etc.

	Has anyone done something similar to this ? Any ideas, commments welcome.

I'm especially interested in/afraid

of php/mysql for handling the simultaneus info coming from the open

tables/chessboards/updating movements for

the other players.


Thanks in advance

Irfan



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