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Hi everyone!
 
I'm finishing up my -mostly business software centered- Information Systems Engineering studies and, for getting our degree and thinking about our work future, my team and I are going to build a game.
 
Now, we are already pretty sure of what we want to build and on which platform using which technologies*, but a mandatory requirement for the project to be approved is a market research.
 
And for that is that I humbly, and with the due apologies for the shameless spam, request of any of you willing to please fill out and share this survey with as many people as you see fit:

https://docs.google.com/a/srvans.com.ar/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhkTkc5SzBBaTNPb0tBdmZxMHVldlE6MA#gid=0
 
I reckon I should be probably posting on non-game related forums, and I'm doing that in my native language**, but I'm just not inside many enlglish speaking communities. So if anyone has any feedback, thoughts, comments, suggestions or anything to say, really, I'd be glad to hear!
 
Thank you all for your time!
 
*I'm not specifying anything here to keep the survey as unbiased as possible.
**If anyone would prefer to fill/share a spanish version of the survey, it can be found here: http://bit.ly/11M9lfS

Well hello there! Man it's been a while since I last visited this forums..

Anyway, I know my way around proggramming turn based games with multiplayer on C and C#, but I want to tackle the web monster this holyday season. My goal is to have a working simple (even if not quite finished) turn based tiled "strategy" game by mid january, wich looking at my schedule seems quite doable.

Problem: I only know the basics of HTML and CSS (and fortunately that includes several "good practices" that have not been deprecated in the definitions of HTML5 and CSS3) and NONE JavaScript. Also the simplest of PHP, but I've done nothing more than a "Hello World!" for now.

As for graphics, good ol' colored ASCII characters will do just fine, so you could say I'm aiming at "2D" at the moment (actually it'd be neat if the game would eventually turn into a "full fledged" roguelike, but for now let's assume I'm not being hardcore, I'm just lazy about graphis).

Now, our dear uncle Google has shown me the existence of several interesting topics of discusion (i.e.: the state of html5 implementation, canvas, webgl, css transitions..), as well as the existance of several SDK/frameworks, some of wich are even free and open. But I'd prefer to work purely with code, Notepad++ is a good friend of mine, althought I won't complain if you know any good (free) IDE or other editor better suited for the job.

So.. Any advice as to where to start? Have books on html5 game development been written yet? I tried to look at Mozilla's BrowserQuest code on git but that was of course a bit too complex for me

Big thanks!