A Good Place to Start
February 12, 2008 – 6:36 pmA lot of people ask how they can start/learn to develop browser based game, hopefully this article will help get them started. This article may be helpful to developers who are struggling to make changes / develop games without disturbing the production version.
The development environment comes into play for both these circumstances. There are a number of ways to setup your development environment. The solution is both short and sweet.
Please keep in mind this is only good for development teams of 1 or 2 individuals, you will need to do much more if your team consists of 3+ developers/coders.
I tend to use Uniform Server (http://www.uniformserver.com) as my environment. It’s a simple download you unzip and click a “start” executable. Yes, this is a Windows solution however, there are a number of alternative solutions, just search for LAMP on google.
It runs Apache, mySQL and PHP with a number of utilities. The great part is it’s less then 2GB so it fits on a flash drive, this means you can work on any windows, anywhere.
I use that to develop on my local machine. Once I am ready, I ftp my changed files to the site. (After making the database changes)
Every so often I will download the entire site from production and over write my development file. This helps keep my local version from getting to far from the production version.
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3 Responses to “A Good Place to Start”
“you will need to do much more if your team consists of 3+ developers/coders”
I haven’t been in such a group before, but I think a good solution to multiple developers would be to use subversion. You can get a free repository at Google Code, or you could just host your own.
Then each developer can work on the same code and commit changes regularly.
The good thing is that you can still test it all and code it on your own computer/development environment.
By Andy on Feb 12, 2008
I use wamp, but i will look into Uniformserver, the usb keys is a good idea.
I use cvs locally for keeping files versions
By Vlad on Feb 13, 2008
Thanks for the tip!
By xfx 6600gt on Feb 19, 2008