Game Review Game Review - Elethor Elethor, despite it’s problems, is a very good PBBG and is still in it’s infancy, the open release is just 4 months in as of this date. [...] I suggest PBBG enthusiasts to give this game a try, at least a week.
Making Egg Trainer 7 In today's article, we're going to have a look a poll that I released to see what people want from the MERN-template. I'm sure there will be some surprises.
The Evolution of Elethor's Infrastructure An application's infrastructure is typically designed around its needs. In an ideal world (and most blog posts), those needs are outlined clearly before any work starts, and everything scales smoothly
Game Review Game Review - SpaceAlpha.net As the very first game review for the PBBG.com blog, I feel it's my duty to make sure that I review a game that has enough meat to really
Making Egg Trainer 6 In this article, we're going to explore the concept of JSON web tokens, and how I've implemented them in the MERN-template.
Making Egg Trainer 5 In this article, it's best that you read in the voice of Sir David Attenborough, as we're exploring some of the lore behind certain creatures. No, this isn't a fluff
Making Egg Trainer 4 In this article, we'll go over the creatures, how they're designed, developed and implemented. We'll also talk about moves and their effects, and we might also touch on the items further down.
Making Egg Trainer 2 We're having a look at the news server. If you're familiar with a tool like cURL, you can follow along and play around with the live demo.
Making Egg Trainer 1 Egg Trainer is a Pokemon-inspired PBBG where you buy eggs, hatch them, train the creatures and battle them against each other.
State of PBBG The State of PBBG 2021 Survey Results This year marks the first ever State of PBBG survey, aimed at gaining outreach and giving players a bigger voice in the games they play. The survey was open for 15 days, and represented 144 total community members.
Technical How to QA like a pro Performing Quality Assurance for software is a subtle art, and there is a difference between just looking at your project's basic functionality/experience versus doing a deep dive on details.
On Cheating; This is an opinion of the author, and does not represent the views of the PBBG.com organization The PBBG community is uniquely vulnerable to simplified hacks, attacks and bypasses
Game Development Dynamic and Repeatable Tilemap Generation with Noise How to use Noise algorithms to generate dynamic tilemaps for javascript games.
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
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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
