This article documents the first step in building a new strategy web game. The design phase is a critical phase which often gets overlooked by developers who want to get stuck into code. And truth be told, I’m one of those developers. Its very easy to dive into the code before you have a solid […]
Read MoreBefore I get started I wanted to say that I am not a web server expert so if you know of a better way to do this, post it in the comments and I will thank you as I implement your knowledge in my game. When using PHP you eventually come to the realization that […]
Read MoreIf you’ve been following along with our tutorial at all, you may have noticed that our code files tend to…evolve over time. Templates go from being simple list-of-links affairs to being filled with loops and conditionals and all kinds of other goodies. Today, I have news for you that will make it much easier to […]
Read MoreIntroduction Before you tackle this one, you probably need to take a quick peek at the blog entry where the design of this system is described: A Flexible Stats System The contents of this tutorial is based on the follow-up to that entry, entitled: Implementing A Flexible Stats System (PHP) The gist of the design […]
Read MoreDoing It ‘The Rails Way’ Building the registration page and login the way we did was instructive. You got to see how to access the database using ActiveRecord, migrations, etc. All useful stuff, but building this particular code by hand is not how it’s done in Rails. It just doesn’t make sense to recreate all […]
Read MoreIntroduction This entry picks up where the last one left off and is (as always) based on an entry at the Building Browsergames blog: The Login Page (PHP) Right off the bat we modify the user model to have two new attributes, one to mark the user as an admin and the other to note […]
Read MoreIntroduction Today we’re going to tackle the same material as in this posting: Using Configuration Files (PHP) Configuration In Rails Fortunately, this is going to be an easy one. In Rails you use the config/database.yml file from the very beginning of your project to setup your connection to the three databases you normally use in […]
Read MoreThe results of our poll from earlier have been decided, and the option ‘Toggle active weapons’ won by a slim margin. So, that’s what we’ll be building today! The ’swap weapon’ page is a simple one – we’ve already written most of the code when we wrote the purchasing logic in our weapon shop from […]
Read MoreIt was a close race, but in the end the results of our poll on whether users should dual wield their weapons or have to toggle which one was active have been decided: users will toggle which weapon is currently active. Today, we’re going to be implementing that functionality. The ’swap weapon’ page is a […]
Read MoreAs you’re building your own browsergame, you will stumble across a variety of technologies and approaches that you can use to set your game apart. Some creators use Javascript to achieve this through enhanced interfaces, and others build interesting gameplay mechanics. One interesting element that has recently come into play in the realm of Javascript […]
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