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...
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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...
Pits Of Doom Lesson 1: Planning Stage
Before you start any kind of online game you need to take a minute to sit down and consider some of the following questions: What is my game called? What is my target audience?...
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...
Allegro Tutorial: Threading
Here is a link to threading in Linux. That will be very interesting as my Linux skills are still fairly limited at this point! But in the meantime I conned this Windows example of...
SecondLife Tutorial: Single Controller For Multiple Objects
Create a controller object with on button and an off button. Assign the on button code to the on button, the off button code to the off button and the block code to the...
Second Life Tutorial: Communication Between Two Different Objects
For my summer science research project I needed to build a lego house that would interact with a controller mounted on a working elevator. In order to get the controller communicating with the blocks...
SecondLife Tutorial: Working Elevator
I found code from another person in the SL wiki and tweaked it to my liking. It had some issues with coming back down after the SL avatar was on top of the elevator...
SecondLife Tutorial: Walk Through Walls (Phantom Objects)
Sometimes you really need an object to appear solid but you need to be able to walk through it for one reason or another. The good news is this is really easy to do,...
Real World SecondLife Crimes: Virtual Rape & Pornography
I found a really interesting article in the Washington Post and I thought I’d share it. Apparently there have been an increasing number of crimes in second life. This article talks about a virtual...
