Programming Languages Recommendations: A Space shooter game that allows two people to play

Sunday, February 13, 2011 by Nate Bross

Someone asked on Game Development:

Do you remember an arcade game, that allowed two people to versus or play each other? It was a Galaga/Gradius type game.

Me and a couple of other people I know want to make a game like this. We want to get some other opinions on what programming languages to use. (C or C++ isn’t an option).

We plan to use an engine to help us build the game and it’s going to be a multiplayer game, so we would be handling the networking with this language as well.

We are thinking about C#, Java, or Actionscript 3.

Any advice on this? And if anyone knows the arcade game I am referring to please post up!

Edit

Let me add something here, this game will be played on computers and laptops only. We mainly want to know what’s good for handling the networking and Dual screen play.

I posted the following answer, which was chosen as the accepted answer and received 5 upvotes:

C# and XNA will allow you to develop for Windows, XBox, and Windows Phone. It supports multi-player two former platforms. One of the game samples that comes with the developer tools used to be a space shooter.

In my experience it has a very low barrier to entry, the tools are free for Windows, and only $99/year for XBox and Windows Phone.

Originally posted on Game Development — 5 upvotes (accepted answer). Licensed under CC BY-SA.