Many games build on ideas from previous games and this one is no exception. If anyone would like to program it in Flash or HTML5, be my guest! This is another public domain idea, no fees, royalti…

Web development had its first stab at meeting the mobile Internet back in the days of WAP 10 years ago, but after initial enthusiasm it failed to set the world alight (except in Japan). These day…

Flash is still the leading technology for Web games, and is likely to remain so for quite a while, even with HTML5 and WebGL both threatening it. For a time it was also under the cloud of Silverl…

Making money their Web games is obviously something all developers want to do. No pay--no game! So, when Roger Dickey, the brains behind Zynga's Mafia Wars and GM of FishVille shares his secrets,…

The World Wide Web, it sometimes seems, was invented to play games. Indeed, it's the logical successor to the computer, postal, and BBS games of the '80s and '90s. Maybe Tim Berners-Lee didn't ha…

Programming Web games is the coolest job going. It's a massive growth area with companies like Zynga making millions from running Facebook games -- so how do you break in? In the good old days --…