Xorbient: Prototyping Challenge
This is a game about absorbing things around you. It’s possible to make this game with several themes, but the theme I’ve chosen for it is a children’s game. Imagine a yellow blob of...
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Prototyping Challenge: What is it?
Okay, so I got this idea for prototyping challenges from Lost Garden. Danc is a pretty awesome guy and I have to give him a big round of applause for his accomplishments. I have...
Apache FIX: Forbidden/You don’t have permission to access / on this server
Check the permissions of the folder. Usually its a chmod problem and you can change it to drwx–x–x. However another problem can be the conf/httpd.conf file. If you have an incorrect <Files > record...
Cpanel FIX: Error from domain wrapper: domain is owned by another user.
I got this error when I was trying to add subdomains to one of my cPanel accounts. This happens when cPanel doesn’t remove the subdomain correctly and then it thinks it’s still there so...
Game Economy
One of the biggest issues I’ve run into as a game developer is keeping control of the economy. One of the problem with new players is they don’t have the experience to use the...
Conceptual Reality
Although most of the games I’ve made are online text based games, they’ve taught me a lot of valuable knowledge. How do you make a game that keeps people addicted? Some developers spend years...
CHM & PDF Programming Manuals
I know these have come in handy for me over the years. Right click and save link as. AJAX – chm Pragmatic AJAX – pdf Allegro 4.2.1 – chm C++ Addison Reference – chm...
Allegro Tutorial: Alternative Text Input (not using Allegro GUI)
Okay, I didn’t program this, I actually got it from a friend. I’m not sure who wrote it (my friend didn’t) but he said it was freeware. #include allegro.h #include winalleg.h #include string using...
PLEX Source Code Version 0.03
I’ve done several things this week. The game now checks to see if you have a correct login, and only lets you login if it matches a login found in the game database. Once...
Envisioning PLEX
I realized that I never wrote up the storyboard and notes I drew up when I decided to make PLEX. Of course it has changed a little bit since then, but the rules and...
