The PBBG Blog

When to rewrite.

From the time you begin prototyping, to your finished product, most of us will have to rewrite either the entire game or significant parts of it. Especially if you're diving into some new technology, the techniques you learn along the way can make your

Elite Forces: A brand new military- themed MMORPG

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Arms Of War

Feature Review: Player Levels & Match Making

One of the hardest parts about creating a strategy game is giving something to two of your most important players: the brand new player, and the old veteran.

Arms Of War

Environment Boxing & Shipping

Before joining Arms of War, it was running on a server on what you'd expect. The code was deployed via FTP, the database was installed to the VPS, and everything needed to be managed by the administrator. This is fine if you're not looking

Arms Of War

Your Legacy & You

The main concept around this is to grow your power by increasing the power of your lineage.

Meta/Community

Thanks, Internet Family

Although this time is about being with people important to us in person, I hope we won't forget about the virtual ones too.

Math

System Balancing - Basic Equations

Basic equations for use in PBBG mechanics. Linear, Exponential, Flat sequences and applications.

Arms Of War

Feature Review: Generals' Server-Side Ticks

Arms of War: Generals is written to have server-side ticks. What does that mean?

Game Mechanics

Mechanics Part 1: Energy Systems

As the first post in the Mechanics series, I'd like to tackle one of the most popular mechanics in PBBGs; Energy systems. Also known as stamina/action point systems, energy

Stress and pressure of running a game

Hello Everyone, Today I want to address the stresses and pressures of actually running a game. I want to prefix this by saying I run CrimeBloc and it's fairly big

Arms Of War

Arms of War (Generals, Lineage, Kings)

While I've never written a blog post (ever), I do enjoy reading them from many different sources. I've read the ones that Christopher has written and relate to them very

Game Development

Game Mechanics Introduction

Game mechanics, in game design study (also called Ludology), are defined as "methods invoked by agents for interacting with the game world." Simply put, a mechanic is a set of

Thoughts on PBBGs

A Persistent Browser-Based Game (PBBG) is a game that: offers a persistent game universe that moves forward even when you’re not playing.can be played in a web-browser.I’

Arms Of War

Feature Review: Random Item Generation

This is a repost from an earlier-published article. One thing that I've been doing while developing the game is throwing my ideas into our dev channel in discord, #the-recycle-bin. While I like to reflect on what I put here I sure it just creates