AJAX Tutorial: Hangman Game (no database required)
Last year I made an PHP tutorial of an OOP Hangman game (no database required) for a Siminar I spoke at. This year as a part of my new Game Tutorial Series I’m adding...
Tagged: Game Design
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...
PHP Tutorial: Dynamically Colored Images, Overlays & Transparencies
So this one isn’t really a tutorial but it gives you a good idea how you’d go about changing the colors of pictures dynamically. To get the big picture on how you might use...
Crunching the Numbers: Video Game Industry
According industry studies conducted by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), approximately 41% of Americans have purchased or are expected to purchase video games in 2008. Sixty-five percent of American households play computer or video...
Pits Of Doom Update
Don’t think I’ve forgotten about the game tutorial!! I haven’t. I’ve been really busy at work and trying to get a new site ready for its BETA opening. Blah. Anyways, I’m almost done will...
Video Gamers: Reflection of Society
Games in Culture I’m not a guy, but I have lots of male gamer friends. My experiences amongst them have taught me they like games that are fast paced, action packed, and trigger happy....
Gaming Industry Standards
U.S. computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2007 to $9.5 billion — more than tripling industry software sales since 1996. Sixty-seven percent of American heads of households play computer and...
PLEX Source Code Version 0.07
Time spent – 4 hours. Okay, so I have the selector working now. There’s one issue with the pink color, so its not completely transparent like it should be but that’s a small fix...
Social Community
One of the most interesting things I’ve found creating games is the sense of community that evolves out of them over the years. For instance, on my largest game White Oak Stables I’ve setup...
