Comments on: Looking for a tutorial?

By: micster

micster — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:06:37 +0000

I'd like to put in my vote for a quest or mission system.

By: micster

micster — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:06:37 +0000

I'd like to put in my vote for a quest or mission system.

By: Marius

Marius — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:52:21 +0000

I'd like to see a tutorial for security to prevent cheaters and hackers from getting an easy picking. And I support a tutorial for a map that updates without refreshing the page.

I've been tiped that a map in a browser game could be done by CSS sprites (all the different map variations are put into a single sprite image with equal size) and z-index for layering.

Say you have dedicated one CSS layer for terrain, usually this would only be set once and never change.
And then you have one layer for various details you'd like to add to the map (cities, structures, items etc)
And one last for players and creatures.

When a creature moves, you could say that the image displayed in layer 3 should now be swapped…

This would make it possible to update the image without refreshing. I've just started to look into this, but my web programming skills are very basic, so I haven't quite figured out how to make this work as a map for a game. Examples I've seen have used mouse over to swap images, which is far from what functionality we'd like in a game map

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:03:40 +0000

Lawrence,

Are you talking about the Building Browsergames tutorials, or a different
set? The Building Browsergames tutorials actually *are* linked, and you can
see the progression on the tutorials page at
http://buildingbrowsergames.com/tutorials/.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:59 +0000

I could be wrong here and just me being stupid, but there are a set of really good tutorials but they sort of need to be linked they are a great series of individual tutorials but need to be linked

By: Nick Janssen

Nick Janssen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:40:11 +0000

Hello,

I'm particularly curious on how a world map system without refreshing works in a browser game using just Javascript and AJAX. Like SergiuGothic said, it would be nice to view a tutorial on creating a dynamically expanding image (the world map) in your browser.

Thank you!

By: Dogs

Dogs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:39:45 +0000

I along with my some friends wish to create a game for the net. We are still working on it. We need your support. I will forward you our problems after I discuss with them.

By: sunchaser

sunchaser — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:45:05 +0000

As i am testing the reward system on my topsite i had to make a reward system on the game BS RPG, so i wrote a kind of tutorial. It can be a start and can be of course enhanced and reposted here.

http://www.topwebgames.it/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f...

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:02 +0000

This has actually already been covered, in the post “Using the 'on-view'
method instead of cron”. Essentially, you just keep track of timestamps on
all of your actions, and only perform the processing required for them when
a user actually visits something that would require those calculations to
have been performed. That way, you aren't tying up your server with any more
work than it has to do.

You can read the actual write-up at
http://buildingbrowsergames.com/2008/07/18/usin...
.

By: krie999

krie999 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:38:33 +0000

I was thinking about some example of code on how to 'update' the game database on events that should be time triggered. this wouldn't be really necessary with direct action such as runescape. I was looking for an alternative for cronjobs… and not really conjobs. It would be a little background process that updates the database on actions that the players has started. For example the sending of troops with some sort of traveling time…