The Game Plan: Minimum Viable Product
In the previous posts we talked about how to create a budget for your game, some helpful tips if you’re not a programmer and finally we went over the best ways to help you in getting started. Now...
Tagged: Game Design
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...
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...
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...
PHP Tutorial: 2 Player Tic-Tac-Toe Game (no database required)
In the first part of my games tutorial series we created a PHP Hangman game and then in the second installment we converted Hangman to use AJAX. Now it’s time to follow the same...
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...
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...
PHP Tutorial: Free OOP Hangman Game (no database required)
At this year’s Siminar I’m presenting a live webinar on “Learning OOP” to many young female gamers. Part of that presentation includes a OOP hangman game they can easily install and incorporate on their...
PHP Tutorial: Learning OOP – Class Basics & Extending Classes
What Is OOP? Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is an programming style that uses classes with attributes and methods to create objects. OOP can be used anywhere, however it’s most practical when working with relational...
