After twenty years of growing up with computer games and three years of playing various persistent browser-based games, you start to find yourself asking questions. Like, “why can’t we do this?â€, and “why does it always have to be like that?†– but when you find yourself saying “I could do better†then you are […]
Read MoreOne important but often neglected part of building a browsergame is planning it – what you will be building, and how you will be building it. So far, we’ve built a login and registration system for a browsergame – but not much else. In order to plan a little more out for our game, here’s […]
Read MoreOne of the things that all of the forms we’ve built so far have been missing is something that virtually every browsergame worth its salt has: inputs that remember their old values. You can see this in action on virtually any website you visit, whether it’s a browsergame or not. You type some text into […]
Read MoreOne of the small, hard to notice features that I’ve encountered on a few games and grown to love is that of the auto-focusing form field. When you go to login or register, as long as your web browser has Javascript enabled, you’ll automatically be able to type into the first textbox that you need […]
Read MoreWhen you start building significant pieces of your game beyond the basic login and registration systems, you start to realize that you’re copying and pasting the basic layout of your pages a lot. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a template that you can drop all of the unique content into, and re-use on every […]
Read MoreSo far we’ve built a registration page and a login page for our game, but not much else. That’s because we’re hitting a bit of an important milestone for our game: what templating system will we use? It’s important to choose a templating system before you start building any functionality more complex than your registration […]
Read MoreYou’re set. You’ve chosen a language and a webhost, and now you’re ready to sit down and start hacking away at building your game. You’ve got a pretty cool idea that you’re excited to turn into something. A browsergame is a pretty big undertaking. Where will you start? For a lot of people, that one […]
Read MoreWhen building a browsergame, there are a lot of choices to be made. Will it be turn-based or real-time? Will it have advertisements? Will I charge people to play? But one question that you need to answer early on in your development process is: what language will it be built in? To begin with, you […]
Read MoreJust think: you just created a browsergame. It’s taking off, and people are signing up by the truckload. You’ve carefully made absolutely sure not to fall victim to SQL Injection, and your launch is going well. But suddenly, something goes wrong. All of a sudden, users visiting the homepage are automatically getting redirected to nefariouswebsite.com! […]
Read MoreYesterday, we talked about how to build a login page in php. Today, we’re going to walk through building the same thing – but in Perl. This writeup will assume that you didn’t follow any of the instructions in the PHP entry, and simple start from where our Perl left off. To start, we are […]
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