I recently attempted to sign up for a game, only to find that the registration form for the game in question looked something like this: Registration Form When users first look at your game, something has to entice them – and the experience between that initial enticement and actually playing the game is what makes […]
Read MoreOne of the questions that a lot of browsergame developers frequently come up against when they are ready to release their game to the world is “what sort of extras should my site have?”. The extras I’m talking about are small, “value-added” additions to your game – things like wikis, forums, and a development blog. […]
Read MoreThis 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 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 MoreI use Excel, but there are other spreadsheet programs out there. OpenOffice’s Calc is a good free app alternative. That being said, I will be using Excel’s functions and while Calc’s may be similar, I cannot guarantee they are the same. We will build a spreadsheet together and in the process go over some useful […]
Read MoreWhile you’re building your browsergame, there’s one important point to consider: balancing your game. A lot of developers create browsergames without thinking about balancing them first – this usually tends to result in games that are released with some serious balance issues. Certain characters might be over-powered in comparison to others, and certain items might […]
Read MoreNow that I’ve set up my database, it’s time to settle on a templating system, and decide on how I want my templates to work. Working Title only has a few pages that will need to be displayed – according to Design 1.0, there are a total of 7 – Home, Design Document, Register, Login, […]
Read Morebardic commented on the cron post from yesterday, and he said: While crons are a good way to do such a task, they aren’t the best solution. For a game with a large DB a cron can take too long to cycle through the DB. bardic is right, here – in any situation where you […]
Read MoreOne of the cooler aspects of building a browsergame is that there’s a potential to make money off of it. While you won’t make millions overnight, you can still make a little bit – at least enough to offset your costs and then some. And if your game does take off, you’ll be laughing all […]
Read MoreWhile 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 […]
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