It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned Working Title – life seems to always get busy right when you start something. But I’ve slowly managed to compile Working Title’s design document to a state that I can comfortably call ‘1.0′. Is it complete? Not really. Does it at least have the bare minimum for what […]
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 MoreI talk to a lot of people who are interested in building a browsergame, but never really know where to start. I tend to recommend that they draw up their plans for what their game will be, and then come back to me once they have that – from there, they’ll be able to figure […]
Read MoreI can’t count the number of times that I’ve heard things like ‘I was thinking of doing <insert approach here>, but heard that it doesn’t scale well once you hit more than about 1000 users’. It happens a lot. And you know why it happens? Because people who are new to developing think that how well […]
Read MoreAt some point in life, there comes a time when we realize that we don’t know everything. For some people this is later in life, while some realize it early on. In most cases, people who have realized this will try to find some sort of tool or instruction that will help them figure out […]
Read MoreWelcome back for the second half of a review of my experiences in creating Black Sword RPG. I encourage you to see [link?]Part 1 if you haven’t already. Part 1 focused on the creation of the game, while today will focus on evaluating the product, post-creation. I’ll start with what could I have done better […]
Read MoreAfter twenty years of growing up with computer games and three years of playing various persistent browser-based games, you start to find yourself asking questions. Like, “why can’t we do this?â€, and “why does it always have to be like that?†– but when you find yourself saying “I could do better†then you are […]
Read MoreOne important but often neglected part of building a browsergame is planning it – what you will be building, and how you will be building it. So far, we’ve built a login and registration system for a browsergame – but not much else. In order to plan a little more out for our game, here’s […]
Read MoreOne of the things that all of the forms we’ve built so far have been missing is something that virtually every browsergame worth its salt has: inputs that remember their old values. You can see this in action on virtually any website you visit, whether it’s a browsergame or not. You type some text into […]
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 […]
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