Cheater-free browser based games?
Submitted February 26 2003 by Konrad Kiss, Droidarena.Com As a coder or administrator of an online game, sooner or later you will meet the issue of cheaters. All games have cheaters, there is no doubt about that. Not long after the very first computer game came out, so called “trained” versions of the... |
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David vs. Goliath: Succeeding as an Indie Developer
Submitted November 27 2002 by Mike Snyder Evolution of the Mainstream MarketThere was a time when one person could write a great, state-of-the-art game in a few weeks or months, complete with corporate backing and a publishing deal. When Infocom's interactive fiction (text adventures) were... |
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Free vs. Pay: The Undying Debate
Submitted March 8 2002 by Mike Snyder (Wyndo) IntroductionSome opinions are so strong that no amount of arguing will make one side U-turn to share the same views as the other. Some topics naturally bring out emotional responses; the best and worst in people. With certain issues, it’s difficult... |
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Disruptive Players – The Plague of Online Gaming?
Submitted February 24 2002 by Mike Snyder (Wyndo) As I write this, I just had to deal with yet another disruptive player. Well no, one of my “interns” took care of that a day or two ago. What I had to deal with was the rude series of angry emails that followed. This seems like a good place to start on... |
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How companies are disrespectful of there customers today
Submitted November 9 2001 by Marvin Gage I wrote this and hope you decide it is a worthy subject to write about because I feel that it's a topic that really needs to be talked about.Today Mythic has just shown me just how far the disrespect of there customer base has gone. Where are the... |
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Breaking into the Gaming Industry
Submitted October 29 2001 by Matt Beswick This whole article started nearly 4 months ago. The night of the UK General Election I sat at my computer thinking about how things were going, and how much had been put into Mech Wars. I typed for around 4 hours, entering thought after... |
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Browser Based Strategy Games
Submitted October 27 2001 by Matt Beswick What is it about them? Simple a set of number, words, and pages stuck together in order to make a game. They've been around for years, starting way back in the 20th Century. The Century when Television was invented, man first walked on the moon, when... |
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It's a hard knocks life on Visitor
Submitted September 1 2001 by SirEJ Goliaths attacking you with Ballistas. Hellfires bombarding your MDN with FAE Meteors. Enemy avatars egging you on. For alot of people, these mere thoughts are just the ramblings of some online lunatic. But for a very elite bunch of people, this is just... |
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To Play Online Or Not To Play Online
Submitted August 22 2001 by Justin Melillo Well the main point I want to get across is that most online games demand to much. Even if $9.95 isnt that much I still wouldnt pay half that much to play UO. Now when it comes to online strategy games I don't know much, but after playing Artifact (what... |
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MUDs in the World of Cable Modems and Flashy Graphics
Submitted August 11 2001 by Dan O'Brien I haven’t been playing MUDs as long as most of the addicts I’ve met in the realm of MUDs but I can tell you one thing, the population on MUDs is declining. There is a small sphere of people who maintain these fascinating and seemingly backwards games,... |
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