Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 3 for FREE
Talk about a diamond in the rough! Unreal Engine has been at the forefront of 3D games for years and the development kit is available to anyone now. Way to go Epic! You’ve just...
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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...
PHP Functions: Wiggle, Wobble, Squibble & Swipswap
Here are a few fun functions for word games, word scrambling and just plain word craziness. <?php /*********** * Purpose: move a certain letter to a certain position * Precondition: word, letter to move,...
Girl Gamers: Statistics & Trends
A few months ago I surveyed over 500 members from my online game whiteoakstables.net, a realistic horse game. White Oak Stables has almost exclusively female players. The findings are as follows: Age: 10: 2%...
Pits Of Doom Lesson 7: Join, Login & Lost Password
In the last lesson we created a database class to make doing queries quick and easy to handle. Then we converted over the current character file and map editor to use the database when...
Pits of Doom Lesson 6: MySQL Database Class
In the last lesson I introduced you to functions, reading & writing to a file, some simple javascript and adding features to the game so we could swap in/out maps and move up/down map...
Pits of Doom Lesson 5: Easy Map Editor
In the last lesson we made some real progress. Now, instead of having a boring page with a click of one button before the game is over, we have a character that can move...
Pits of Doom Lesson 4: And Array We Go
In the last lesson we covered how to create a function, how to use some of php’s built in functions, and how to deal with sessions. Now we’ll take it even a step further....
Pits of Doom Lesson 2: Breaking It Down
One of the best things to do if you’ve never made a game before or you don’t have much programming experience is to break things down into their most basic parts. We’ll start off...
Free Multiplayer PHP/MySQL Game — Pits of Doom
About a month ago I started giving someone PHP/MySQL lessons. In the lessons I made up a little game to teach the guy how to do different things in PHP all the way up...
