Game Finances: Amortization
What Is Amortization? This is an accounting term for taking multiple payments over time or spreading a single payment out over a period of time. Example 1: Taking Multiple Payments One way you can...
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The Game Plan: Creating A Budget
Now that you’ve designed a plan for your game and you’ve figured out whether or not you’ll be programming it yourself it’s time to make your budget. At first you might be thinking, why...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ML Text Based Game: Fantasy Quest
Haha I just found this old game I wrote in ML for a programming languages class in college. It takes about 20 minutes to play. Maybe it’ll be useful to someone out there? Code...
Pits of Doom Lesson 10: Member Interaction
In the last lesson we added the ability to fight monsters on our map and added a graphic library to display our maps and updated the map editor so we can easily customize our...
Video Game References: 3D Models, Degrees, Associations & Other Useful Links
I find that I visit so many different sites I can’t keep them straight and I can’t remember to update my delicious account. So I started adding them as resources on my main website...
