Building Browsergames

The Tutorial List

Alright, it looks like the people have spoken! Here’s the full list of requested tutorials:

• Building a structured voting system(with voting rewards)
• Adding in-game chat to your game
• Creating an invitation-based registration system
• Using alternate authentication APIs(facebook connect, opensocial connect, twitter auth)
• Building a quest-based game
• Push content(orbited, comet, etc.)
• Scaling your game
• Using document-oriented databases in your game(couchdb, mongodb, etc.)
• Allowing players to set stats(assign skillpoints)
• Achievements
• Building a backend administration area for your game
• How to prevent users from editing another user’s information(validation)
• Adding alliances to a game
• Marketing your game
• Detecting and preventing cheating in your game
• Adding validation to your game
• Adding voting reward support to your game
• Building a territory map that auto-updates

If there are any other tutorials you’d like to see(or you’re interested in writing one yourself), send me an e-mail at buildingbrowsergames@gmail.com, or just comment on this post.

Luke is the primary editor of Building Browsergames, and has written a large portion of the articles that you read here. He generally has no idea what to say when asked to write about himself in the third person.