How To Improve on Arms Races David Bolton, January 11, 2012 3 min read Arms Races are what unimaginative games designers choose as their number one game mechanic. All of the Castle games,...
How to Make Original Sounds for Your Games David Bolton, January 9, 2012 3 min read Back in the '80s, I had a CBM-64 and knew all the poke values for the sound chips. I could make weird sounds in Basic...
My Search for Game Hosting Begins David Bolton, January 5, 2012 4 min read 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...
Introducing the Dice Tech Talent Communities Mark Feffer, January 5, 2012 56 seconds We've just launched the first of a series of communities built around specific areas of tech. Honestly, they're pretty...
Game Design: The Ack Ack Battery Game David Bolton, January 4, 2012 7 min read At times the lack of originality in coming up with a game design is almost depressing. For the past five years, the Web...
Get Funding for Your Web Game David Bolton, December 23, 2011 1 min read Got a brilliant idea for a Web or mobile game, but lack the finances? There are several multimillion-dollar funds out...
Google Goes Big Time With Native Client David Bolton, December 22, 2011 2 min read I mentioned Native Client in my recent article on Web game development and a recent upgrade to Google's Native Client...
A Flash Game Idea – James the Parking Warden David Bolton, December 22, 2011 3 min read Many games build on ideas from previous games and this one is no exception. If anyone would like to program it in Flash...
Microsoft’s Toe in the Water for Social Gaming David Bolton, December 20, 2011 2 min read Microsoft now sees social gaming as a potentially big source of business for their Azure cloud-hosting services....
JQuery Mobile 1.0 Is Out David Bolton, December 14, 2011 1 min read Web development had its first stab at meeting the mobile Internet back in the days of WAP 10 years ago, but after...