I talk to a lot of people who are interested in building a browsergame, but never really know where to start. I tend to recommend that they draw up their plans for what their game will be, and then come back to me once they have that – from there, they’ll be able to figure […]
Read MoreI can’t count the number of times that I’ve heard things like ‘I was thinking of doing <insert approach here>, but heard that it doesn’t scale well once you hit more than about 1000 users’. It happens a lot. And you know why it happens? Because people who are new to developing think that how well […]
Read MoreWe’ve built a banking and combat system, but we haven’t built anything yet that will allow players to heal themselves after combat. Today, we’re going to build that piece of functionality. Amazingly, we don’t actually need add any new stats to our game – we’ve already got all we need with the Maximum HP and […]
Read MoreFor all that we’ve built a banking and a combat system, we need a way for users to heal themselves after combat now. So today, we’ll be building the healer page. For once, we don’t need to add any new stats to our game – we’ll be working off of the Maximum HP and Current […]
Read MoreThe other day, we built a combat system that would allow players to fight monsters, and get gold when they defeated those monsters. Today, we’re going to be building the bank for users to put their gold into. To start off, we’ll add a link to our index page to bank.cgi, which will handle all […]
Read MoreEarlier, we built a combat system with which players can fight monsters, and gain gold when they defeat those monsters. Today, we’re going to build a bank for them to put that gold into. To begin with, we’ll add another link to our index page – this link will go to bank.php, the page that […]
Read MoreSo, we’ve built a simple registration page, and a simple login page. Now it’s time to tie it all together, so that we can use the things we’ve been working on in our game. First off, we’re not going to require users to validate their e-mail addresses. This is a decision that’s really up to […]
Read MoreSo you’ve managed to finish your game, have you? It’s all polished and ready to go, and you’re about to open the gates to the hordes of players out there. But do they know about it? A lack of some sort of advertising or marketing can kill your game’s launch. Word of mouth alone will […]
Read MoreAt some point in life, there comes a time when we realize that we don’t know everything. For some people this is later in life, while some realize it early on. In most cases, people who have realized this will try to find some sort of tool or instruction that will help them figure out […]
Read MoreWelcome back for the second half of a review of my experiences in creating Black Sword RPG. I encourage you to see [link?]Part 1 if you haven’t already. Part 1 focused on the creation of the game, while today will focus on evaluating the product, post-creation. I’ll start with what could I have done better […]
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