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I’d like to play around with writing some very small, simple web-based games (checkers, Conway’s Game of Life, etc). I started looking into Java applet tutorials, but my years of frustration with freezing Java applets had me wondering if there were better and easier development languages to invest my time on. What’s a good “starter” language for web game development?
Simplest: JavaScript
Most used: Flash
Up and coming: Silverlight
On the decline: Java, Shockwave
Advice: If you’re doing something simple, Javascript is fine. Flash is a good option from there, as there’s a lot of examples to learn from. Silverlight is good, but you’ll have fewer examples to take advantage of.
If you want to be able to take advantage of many gaming portals, however, to get your game out to more people–Flash is really what most of them have focused around, and it’ll be harder (not impossible) to distribute to others if you’re not using Flash.