A lan pet Project

Question

Its an idea i have had for many years and i want to finally start doing it.I am still a newbie , but i have enough experience to understand new things.

The basic idea is this.There will be an animal.A spider for example, which can run across systems connected in lan.It comes and sits in one computer, and if the user nudges it it crawls away to visit a nearby or random computer, where it stays until nudged again.That's it.
Now i want to know the following things

1)Which languages are best for this one?I have some knowledge of C# and java.I can do flash animations also

2)What all should i search for to get started?

Its a nonsense project and has no use to anybody.But i will get immense pleasure if i see it work.I will be posting more questions as i progress.

Answer 1

This wouldn't be too difficult in C#. You could create a program (or service) that runs on the systems across the lan, and use WCF Discovery to find other copies of the program running on other systems.

When you want to make the spider move, just see which other systems are available, and send a message to that system that you want it to go there. You'd then make your spider crawl away, and on that system, crawl into place.