Articles by David Bolton

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  Web Game Development: The Venture Begins

  I'm setting up a Web game. Actually I'm going to be setting up two of them, one I can talk about and discuss the design here, and one that I can't until it's ready for beta testing. In this serie…
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  Ren'Py Needs A Game Server!

  Ren'Py is a game system that lets you create interactive games with simple text dialogs and graphics. I think it's been used to create a lot of the teen dating games (and some of the more adult/p…
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  HeroEngine Offers No-Cost 3D Game Creation

  Hero Engine is a 3D game engine, which together with a game service HeroCloud, is a MMO game development system (client and server). It includes the tools to make 3D MMOs and other games and run…
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  The Flash Game Licensing Business Model

  Flash game development is not a guaranteed way to make money. For instance hosting your games on your own site (and having ads) is only worthwhile if you get a massive amount of web traffic or yo…
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  Book Review: ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University

  I must confess a bias towards ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University's 2nd edition, because I learned to program ActionScript (the language behind Flash) from the first edition a couple of…
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  How to Combat a Bot Invasion of Your Game

  Bots. How would you feel if you found out that many of the players in your game weren't actually humans? It can happen, as the online poker world is all too aware. Properly designed, a game playi…
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  How To Improve on Arms Races

  Arms Races are what unimaginative games designers choose as their number one game mechanic. All of the Castle games, and some others (e.g. Inselkampf), use this approach, which means developers s…
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  My Search for Game Hosting Begins

  I've been looking round for the best hosting deal for my web games and it's not easy. I'm writing my own game processing engine, which needs to run perodically, fetch data from a database, proces…
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  Get Funding for Your Web Game

  Got a brilliant idea for a Web or mobile game, but lack the finances? There are several multimillion-dollar funds out there that could speed you on your way. If you get an offer, make sure you ha…
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  Google Goes Big Time With Native Client

  I mentioned Native Client in my recent article on Web game development and a recent upgrade to Google's Native Client now allows games and other apps written in C, C++ and other languages to run…