bbgengine

Check out our crowd funding launch. http://igg.me/at/bbgengine

Turn based has already been done many times over. Working to do something more rare which is real time browser based engine. I am starting with hex map but will add isometric later.

I am thinking about launching crowd funding for my game engine and open it up to others as a SaaS service. You pay monthly and we host it and everything. The engine will require no programming to design your own game. Packages starting at $5/month for a developer package. Would you crowd fund what you all have seen so far and what I plan to do with it? http://www.bbgengine.com

I used node for my real time massive multi player browse based engine. http://www.bbgengine.com.

If there was a site where you could learn how to build browser based games would you paid for it? If not would you at least donate or mind it having advertising?

Good concept so far. I would agree; the map needs some work. I would start with an ajax call instead of a page refresh; I see you did this enhanced. Next I would optimize that to only load in the items on the map that changed, this way you are not reloading the whole map each time. This will make it faster and lighter on bandwidth. If you have any questions on how to do this, feel free to ask me any questions. I just released a real time massive multiplayer browser based game engine so I can provide advice if needed on the ajax stuff. Something else that might be nice is making the tutorial move as the users moves through the game instead of them having to hit next. So once they complete one it shows complete. Best of luck with the game.

Sorry about that. The HTTP 401 is fixed. When I promoted over my test to live it carried over the htaccess with password protection. This has been resolved. Please check it out now.

BBGEngine.com just released new features.   New Game Creation GUI AI "Dunce" now available to play   New Game Creation GUI Now instead of creating a game by a drop down with just a name of the map you can click a picture of the map which is auto generated when makes are created or modified. Also, now users can select how many of the players can be AI. AI "Dunce" now available to play The AI "Dunce" can only randomly move around the map but do not think you will get away from him easily; he updates every 5 seconds and all his units move! Whahahahaha!!!! Player Super Geek is coming in the future and he will know where to find you. Also coming soon are some exploding sprites and moving missiles.

Just make sure you delete or change the password once they are done with their work. Do not leave the access.

You can also setup a sub ftp account to only the folder/files you want to person to access or if that is not restrictive enough you can just email the files themselves to the person but this can be harder for the person to fix/debug without seeing things in action. 3rd option is to create another folder with duplicate code, clone of database if needed and only give ftp access to that folder so if they do anything you can lock them out and they wont have messed with anything live or important. Just some thoughts

We might would do it for $100 depending on what you want. Private Message me and lets talk.

You all have any luck? I have done some work with smarty.

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Yea the whole new extension thing is crazy. Just be careful over trademarks and squatting. I have purchased domains over the years and made some good $xxx over them; others not so lucky. I just got ina.club but own several valuable .com's. A lot of the domain value people are saying the new extensions are not worth anything. Personally I do not agree. It just depends. I only use godaddy for my purchases. 2nd do not tell people domains before you buy them. People will buy and sell to you for $xxx. Also I have watched domains for years checking if they are available and they have been the whole time so its just a matter of time someone else registering it if you wait.

Compare APE and NodeJS Socket.io both are different ways to solve the same problem. I have used APE but have come to like nodeJS socket.io better. That is just me.