i wonder what graphics are more popular.. cartoonist or…. realism ones.

keep up the good work !

Nice blog by the way.

So far so good - basic setup is done in 1 week.
Just need to get the boilerplate stuff done, then the game should come quickly.

I love all the refs on this site to dev stuff - most useful. Thank you a ton

Anyone who has made a PBBG knows how hard it is to ballance out the game, even within its own confines… now you would also have to count on the other websites you are teaming up with to ALSO ballance out THEIR game system, and not only that but make the ballance EXACTALLY THE SAME as yours.

Here is another idea:
A single login system for the pbbg community. You log in once in any of the sites, and all the other sites you visit durring the time of the cookie or session will be done too.. and it will share your BASIC information between sites but no site ever gets your password, unless you sign up at that site by yourself.
Here is what would happen:

You sign up for this one “single login pbbg management site” lets call it quikpbbg.com (i just thought of that).

quikpbbg has a 15 minute looping cron job that will update all the sites with new users… and will send them an encrypted http request with the username and userinfo but no password and then the website owner simply has to add something automatically like qpbbg=1 so then whenever THAT username is tried to be accessed it sends a request to the quikpbbg site to verify the password. It would then send back that yes it is or no.. it isn’t.
The website owner could also use a sytsem where “upon failed login, check quikpbbg” and then it will do the same process and they don’t need any additional feilds in their database.

Most good PBBGs run have RSS feeds, and all members of this “guild” of pbbgs who are part of this single login site would have to keep stats in RSS format (part of a pre-requisit) that way when the user logs in at quikpbbg.com, they can see all their stats in all the games, click links and go to the game and update it.

This will make maintaining your PBBG simpler and allows developers like ourselfs to keep them comming back, because we know how hard it is to keep some little kids attention unless its thrown in their face all the time.

This system is secure, because no site would ever get the password (upon thinking further, they could have a redirect system where they send it to something like quikpbbg.com/?yoursite.com and they login there and then it gives a token, if that would be more secure or faster), it makes it fun and easy to manage many roll playing games and other types of games at once, and give good games that meet some “Game Compliance Level” a good light.

Because all “quikpbbg” games would be advertised on the site, and if this is popular, many users would ditch simmerler games for a game that was on this system.

Think of it like an advanced 9rules of PBBG.

There are obviously errors in this idea, and stuff we would have to work on… but tell me what you think so far