When 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 […]
Read MoreYou’re set. You’ve chosen a language and a webhost, and now you’re ready to sit down and start hacking away at building your game. You’ve got a pretty cool idea that you’re excited to turn into something. A browsergame is a pretty big undertaking. Where will you start? For a lot of people, that one […]
Read MoreWhen 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 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 […]
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