While we’ve been building our game, we haven’t really been focusing too much on securing our game against users who haven’t logged in yet. Most of our pages rely on the fact that the user needs to be logged in to see them, and they’ll break horribly if the user isn’t. So today, we’re going […]
Read MoreWhile we’ve been working on building our browsergame, one thing that we haven’t really touched on is making sure that our users are logged in before they try to do anything. Most of the pages that we’ve built rely on the user being logged in so that we can retrieve their User ID and use […]
Read MoreWe’ve built a banking and combat system, but we haven’t built anything yet that will allow players to heal themselves after combat. Today, we’re going to build that piece of functionality. Amazingly, we don’t actually need add any new stats to our game – we’ve already got all we need with the Maximum HP and […]
Read MoreFor all that we’ve built a banking and a combat system, we need a way for users to heal themselves after combat now. So today, we’ll be building the healer page. For once, we don’t need to add any new stats to our game – we’ll be working off of the Maximum HP and Current […]
Read MoreThe other day, we built a combat system that would allow players to fight monsters, and get gold when they defeated those monsters. Today, we’re going to be building the bank for users to put their gold into. To start off, we’ll add a link to our index page to bank.cgi, which will handle all […]
Read MoreEarlier, we built a combat system with which players can fight monsters, and gain gold when they defeat those monsters. Today, we’re going to build a bank for them to put that gold into. To begin with, we’ll add another link to our index page – this link will go to bank.php, the page that […]
Read MoreSo, we’ve built a simple registration page, and a simple login page. Now it’s time to tie it all together, so that we can use the things we’ve been working on in our game. First off, we’re not going to require users to validate their e-mail addresses. This is a decision that’s really up to […]
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 […]
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