The Game Plan: I’m Not A Programmer
If you’ve been following my Game Plan series then you’ve already put your game idea to paper and have a game design document done along with a set of small, easy to complete tasks...
Category: Articles
HTML5 Game Tutorial: Alien Invasion
This is a little side project I did this week that I would like to share. It’s forked from another project I found on gitHub and liked it so much I decided to spend some time...
Sample Angular Website
So I’ve seen a lot of people using AngularJS but I see very few examples of a website made using it. That’s why I decided to post an example website to give you an...
The Game Plan: Getting Started
Your game design can run fairly smoothly or it can be a continuous cesspool of hardships and setbacks and pain points. In the next few series of posts I’m going to try and help walk...
HTML5 Game Tutorial: Battle Pong
This is a simple HTML5 version of the classic game of pong. Play against the computer for as many levels as you can. The computer gets faster and more competitive the higher the level...
PHP Tutorial: Cookies vs Sessions
If you’re interested in making any kind of web based application then learning how to use sessions and cookies is a must. Many people don’t understand how these work and how they different from...
How To Get People To Play Your Game
I’ve learned a lot in the almost 15 years I’ve been running online games. Sure, I can tell you all the different marketing strategies you usually see articles for that show you how to spam...
Why Making A Game Takes the Fun Out of It (and how to fix this)
I see it all the time, people coming into forums and online communities for games and game developers asking how to make a game or how to get their ultra cool idea that everyone...
MySQL Tutorial: Archiving and Loading Archived Table Data
Let’s say you have a really large table and you want to archive the data to a new table so that your main table is smaller again. This is useful with things like chat...
HTML5 Tutorial: Simple Music Player
So this is a pretty simple example but I was playing around with flash for my chat room and this was byproduct of that experimentation. It’s funny how even when I’m trying to learn...
