Articles by David Bolton
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How to Set Up Couchbase on a PHP Website
In my previous post Testing Couchbase as a NoSQL Server, I described my use of the NoSQL data store Couchbase. Today I'll show you how to start using Couchbase with a PHP website. Note that becau… -
Make Your Online Soccer Game More Realistic
Fantasy Football and online soccer management games have been around for years. There's Soccer Manager, Online Soccer Manager, Trophy Manager and many others. At the heart of most of these games… -
Review: Lewis Pulsipher's 'How to Design Epic Games'
Lewis Pulsipher's name should be very familiar to game players of the past 30 years. He's had several games published, including Britannia — ranked in the top 100 games — as well as Dragon Rage,… -
The Opus Codec: New, Free and Open Source
There's a new codec in town and it sounds good. Developed by a collaboration of the Internet Engineering Task Force, Mozilla, Microsoft (through Skype), Xiph.Org, Octasic, Broadcom and Google, it… -
Pac-Man Goes Online as Open Source
It's possibly the most famous arcade game. Pac-Man, launched by NAMCO Bandai in 1980, took the world by storm, generating a wide following, a top-10 hit single and an animated television series t… -
jQuery's Resig Helps Khan Academy Teach Computer Science
Six years ago, Khan Academy launched its free educational website, featuring thousands of videos uploaded by users on math, science, finance/economics and the humanities. This month, the not-for-… -
Does Web Game Scalability Demand NoSQL?
The database technology that holds all game variables in a server has are two paths to go down: First, the traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) like MySQL, SQL Server and Po… -
Inklewriter Is a Great Tool for Creating Interactive Fiction
Fancy yourself a writer, more than a software game developer? A UK company called Inkle may help you bridge both worlds, and award you money to do it. But first, let’s get into the "bridging both… -
Meteor's A Promising Platform for Web, Game Development
What's Meteor? Besides a company that just received an $11.2 million investment by Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners? Basically, it's a platform for developing Web applications -- including…