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...
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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...
Orthogonal and Isometric Map Editor
So I found this neat map editor, called Tiled, that I’ve been using to make maps for a game. It does have a bit of a learning curve and the documentation is sparse in places...
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...
Run Multiple Tic-Tac-Toe Game Instances (no database required)
Someone asked me about this in a comment recently so this post is specifically for you but I’m sure there are other people who will benefit from it as well. If you haven’t read...
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...
Why Using Google Adsense Really Does Make $ense
I started using Google Adsense on my games in 2004, three years after they opened. Boy do I wish I’d started three years earlier. If you’re not using Google Adsense on your games and...
15 Things Schools Won’t Teach You About Programming
Don’t get me wrong, going to school to learn how to program is great but there are some things that schools seem to miss the mark on and these drive me nuts. Copying –...
