Tag Archives: server

How to make a Facebook social game

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hi and welcome back to my blog! This time I’m going to talk about the process of making a very basic social game as a Facebook app. It’s my hope that if you know how to make a Flash game … Continue reading →

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How to make a multi-player game – part 2

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is part 2 in the series where I talk about making a multi-player game. Last time we built a TCP socket server in node.js and we’re able to send and receive complex … Continue reading →

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Fixing security sandbox violation in Flash AS3

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time I wanted to talk about the dreaded Security sandbox violation error which Flash will sometimes throw at you when you’re working with external websites, or sockets, or file access across local/web. … Continue reading →

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How to make a multi-player game – part 1

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Its been a while since my last post, this is because I’ve been working on a multi-player game, called mmoAsteroids which you can play by clicking on the icon on the side-bar. This … Continue reading →

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Accepting PayPal in games

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! In this article I’m going to talk about the process of accepting payment via PayPal in your own games. Although I focus on Flash, the techniques and web-calls can be performed in pretty … Continue reading →

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Client->server communication using json, silverlight and php

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Paul Firth

Hi and welcome back to my blog! This time i’m going to talk about some of the technology we created for our game PuzzleShare; the client->server communication system. The system we created uses silverlight on the client, but the code … Continue reading →

Posted in JSON, Server side, Silverlight, Technical | Tagged , , , , , , | 17 Comments