Facebook and Myspace both have over 30 million users. As the creator of a browsergame, you’ll be lucky if your game even sees a tenth of that userbase – but what if you could put it to work for you? Image that you’re building a browsergame that needs to reach a certain ‘critical mass’ to be […]
Read MoreAs you may or may not know, Building Browsergames was offline for a short while this weekend. I was transferring Building Browsergames from running off of my own, dedicated server to a Virtual Private Server from Slicehost. Now, you may be wondering exactly why I made the switch – and it’s a fair question to […]
Read MoreI use Excel, but there are other spreadsheet programs out there. OpenOffice’s Calc is a good free app alternative. That being said, I will be using Excel’s functions and while Calc’s may be similar, I cannot guarantee they are the same. We will build a spreadsheet together and in the process go over some useful […]
Read MoreWhile you’re building your browsergame, there’s one important point to consider: balancing your game. A lot of developers create browsergames without thinking about balancing them first – this usually tends to result in games that are released with some serious balance issues. Certain characters might be over-powered in comparison to others, and certain items might […]
Read MoreAs you’re building your own browsergame, you will stumble across a variety of technologies and approaches that you can use to set your game apart. Some creators use Javascript to achieve this through enhanced interfaces, and others build interesting gameplay mechanics. One interesting element that has recently come into play in the realm of Javascript […]
Read MoreAs the editor of a site about browsergames, I tend to e-mail browsergame creators a lot. As a result, I’ve noticed that there are some things that I really like about the ways that certain games handle having users contact them, and some things I don’t like. First off, make it easy to get in touch […]
Read MoreBuilding Browsergames will be going offline for a few days – I’m going to be transferring the site(and all related files) to a new server.
Read MoreNow that I’ve set up my database, it’s time to settle on a templating system, and decide on how I want my templates to work. Working Title only has a few pages that will need to be displayed – according to Design 1.0, there are a total of 7 – Home, Design Document, Register, Login, […]
Read MoreWe’ve already built an items system for our game, in addition to writing code to retrieve our items. But one thing that we haven’t done yet is plan out what sorts of items there should be in our game. Should there by usable items? Should players be allowed to have one weapon, two weapons, or […]
Read Morebardic commented on the cron post from yesterday, and he said: While crons are a good way to do such a task, they aren’t the best solution. For a game with a large DB a cron can take too long to cycle through the DB. bardic is right, here – in any situation where you […]
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