Ack!!! to many C's help please

Nomolos · 2004-05-21T14:03:32

Hello all, As a quick intro I am new to the site so hi! (This will be my only long post as it is introductory, Promise) I am a Canadian in Toronto Ontario and am about to execute a business idea which is going to require me to get back into coding to create a game world for my clients to interact. Here is my starting challenge. I have a comp-sci degree from 10 years ago and used to play around with some development mainly for fun. I used to work in C and started to get the oop stuff in C++ down then shelved my hobby for work. Bah!! I am a corp exec and hate every minute of it. Problem is, once I dusted off my compiler and then started to search around the boards and stuff I found a whole whack of new C''s. C, C++ 6.0, C#.net, C++.net, Whoah!!! Question - Which C do I want to buy for a new IDE and compiler, C++, C++.net or C#.net. Could someone please shead some light on this for me. My goal is to creat a 3D animated muti-user environment where clients can interact together as a game character in a 3D world and do business with one another. 2nd question would be, what is a good open source engine to use today for this application. I can anticipate up to 200 users online within the world at any one point in time. Any help would be great. Sorry for the long post, I will be looking for a network guru to help me out with the online phase if any out there have interest drop me an email to chat about it. I am about 6 months away before the online project starts development (With help anyway) Nomolos, Work hard...Play harder!