PHP Tutorial: Connecting to a MySQLi Database
So, here’s the low down on how to setup a connection to a MySQL database using MySQLi and PHP. This will also make sure your login information is protected. First, you’ll need a database,...
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Use Play Testing To Reduce Game Development Costs
What Is Play Testing? This is a technique where you build a working version of your game and play it before you ever release the game to market. So you may be asking yourself,...
How Do I Get Started Making An Online Game?
This is something I’ve been asked fairly often. If you’re interested in starting your own online game here’s a few things to get you moving in the right direction. What game are you going...
Cygwin .bashrc file
I’ve been working on my .bashrc file so I thought I would share. # To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all # copyright and related and neighboring rights to this...
Female Gamers: Trends and Statistics
So every few years I put out a new survey to all the members on my text-based internet games. Most of the members of my games are teenage girls. All of my games are...
How Much Does It Cost To Create A Flash MMO?
Are you thinking about making a flash MMO? Want to know what it costs? Then you’re in the right place. I’ve been working on an MMO for the past two years and I thought...
Addictive Social Gaming
My largest game, White Oak Stables (WOS), has a newspaper that’s run and managed entirely by the members. Today someone posted a contest where you fill in the remainder of the sentence. The topic...
Active Members – How Do You Keep Them?
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the almost 10 years I’ve been running, creating and programming online games for girls it’s that keeping members active is a catch-22. Change is Good In order...
Website Optimization & Usability Tools
Thanks to WebPagesThatSuck.com here’s a list of tools you can use to cleanup and optimize your website: HTML Validation – http://validator.w3.org/ CSS Validation – http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Link Validation – http://validator.w3.org/checklink Readability – http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php Color Contrast...
Useful Intel Articles
Designing artificial intelligence for video games. Fluid Simulation for video games. Tips & Tricks. An approach to optimizing a game engine. Neural networks in video games. Character animation: skeleton animations and inverse kinetics. Code...
