When 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 […]
Read MoreBuilding off of where we left off, today we will be building the login page for our browsergame. To begin with, let’s modify our users table, and add two more columns – we will be tracking which users are administrators, and what time a particular user last logged in at: pALTER TABLE `users` ADD `is_admin` […]
Read MoreFor those of you who are writing Perl, you might be wondering about how you can implement the simple configuration file system that I explained how to build in PHP yesterday. If you’re looking for more advanced configuration options than the typical configuration file, you might want to try searching The CPAN for configuration modules […]
Read MoreOne of the things that you will encounter while building a Browsergame is the fact that you need to connect to a database. There’s just no way around it – if you plan to store the amount of data that a browsergame needs, you will need a database or some sort of storage layer in […]
Read MoreWhen most people think about security, they think about a login/registration system. They usually don’t tend to think about what you need to protect most – a user’s data. Take, for example, the simple authentication system we built in the last two posts. In both of those cases, there was at least one line of […]
Read MoreYesterday, I introduced you to building your registration page using the popular language PHP. Today, I’ll be doing the same thing – except in Perl. I’m assuming that you’ve already set up your database according to the instructions from yesterday. If you haven’t, here’s the SQL you need to run on a new database: CREATE […]
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to build your own browsergame, but not known how to begin or where to start? Generally, the easiest place to start is your registration page. It’s the page that users will see first when they’re interested in playing your game, and it’s how they will create their accounts before they login […]
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