I'm not sure how you could make a program that runs over a game, and if you find a way please do share it with this community. However, for the rest of your specification, I'd say any of the following would be good enough for your needs:

Visual Studio 2010 and above, or monodevelop.

Language wise, I'd mostly go for C#, although Visual Basic will do the exact same job, probably easier and quicker for you to learn with your lack of Windows Application experience.

kpempire wrote I'm not sure how you could make a program that runs over a game, and if you find a way please do share it with this community. However, for the rest of your specification, I'd say any of the following would be good enough for your needs:

Visual Studio 2010 and above, or monodevelop.

Language wise, I'd mostly go for C#, although Visual Basic will do the exact same job, probably easier and quicker for you to learn with your lack of Windows Application experience.

Hi, thanks for your answer

Will for sure share if I find a way to do it, although I need to learn everything from pretty much scratch so I will do my best to find a way asap.

Either C# or C++
c++ is the fundamental language for and C code, learn c++ and you can pretty much transcribe it over to c#.

C# is much easier for object orientated programming, but C++ is a much more powerful language

I recommend C++ or Java, they were both fairly easy for me to learn as a entry level user. Keep in mind you wont be doing anything big at first only small programs like calculators and stuff , anyway good luck on your endeavors to learn a programming language.

As said above, C++ or C# is probably the best language for you to use for this project. Personally I like C# over C++, but it's just preference.
If you choose to go down the Visual Basic route, use this website for reference. It's for beginners and experts to use.

vbtutor.net

Currently I am learning C# and I think it is pretty simple but C++ is more commonly used for games now a days. Download Monogame for your IDE.

I would recommend using mysqli for your database, but other than that Visual Basic is normally an easy language to learn. C++ is probably the one you should learn though

GameDev14 wrote I would recommend using mysqli for your database, but other than that Visual Basic is normally an easy language to learn. C++ is probably the one you should learn though

I'm confused, what are you talking about? MySQLi isn't a database it's a set of PHP functions for using a mysql database. lol Most programming languages have libs for this. Also on another note, PDO is better imo :3

OP - Don't go with VB. I you wanna go for a .net language then go for C#.
Also since it's just a chat program maybe look into sockets and TCP (transmission control protocol). The small problem I believe you may encounter is the fact that when the packets are sent (these contain the message etc.) anyone in the network could probably get a packet sniffer such as Wireshark and listen to that network then see the data being sent. So it won't exactly be private unless you encrypt the data on send and decrypt on receive. FYI I haven't ever made one of these but I AM PRETTY SURE the data in the messages can just be seen since when I use raw sockets on my server in php the packet sniffer can see the udp packets data. Anyways MANY of these have been made before so it shouldn't be too hard getting the fundamental stuff since there's many tutorials covering it. Like this one for C#. [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Good luck!

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