If 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 MoreAre you working on building a browsergame? Have you got all your ideas carefully sketched out and organized, so that you know exactly what to build? Have you designed your game’s database properly? Figured out what makes your game unique? Started? It might sound surprising, but a lot of the great ideas out there never […]
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 MoreAfter building a browsergame, most browsergame creators come up with a way for their game to make money. Typically this takes the form of paid subscriptions, sponsorships, or advertising. Today, I want to talk to the readers who have created a browsergame that is currently using advertising as a revenue source: which network are you […]
Read MoreFacebook and Myspace both have over 30 million users. As the creator of a browsergame, you’ll be lucky if your game even sees a tenth of that userbase – but what if you could put it to work for you? Image that you’re building a browsergame that needs to reach a certain ‘critical mass’ to be […]
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