If you hesitate to purchase game assets below are some tips. You need a websocket java client and server? Needed to have a web based tool to manage your sqlite db? Do you want to share and write js? Love board games? It is a week of needs and questions.
Pinoypixel: Why purchase game assets
Pinoypixel is a low cost independent game development blog center. It basically just consist of me and my wife. We normally purchase assets! Yes we do purchase our assets and at times we customized them based on our requirements. Despite naming it Pinoypixel, we focused more in technical development rather than creation of graphic content. To read more about why Pinoypixel or you indie studio should buy assets, check out this blog Pinoypixel: Why purchase game assets.
Java: Bare websocket engine
This repository contains a barebones WebSocket server and client implementation written in 100% Java. The underlying classes are implemented java.nio, which allows for a non-blocking event-driven model (similar to the WebSocket API for web browsers). If you need a java solution to run a websocket server in android or jdk5 check out this git, https://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket.
Php: phpLiteAdmin, Web based tool to manage sqlite
phpLiteAdmin is a web-based SQLite database admin tool written in PHP with support for SQLite3 and SQLite2. Following in the spirit of the flat-file system used by SQLite, phpLiteAdmin consists of a single source file, phpliteadmin.php, that is dropped into a directory on a server and then visited in a browser. There is no installation required. The available operations, feature set, interface, and user experience is comparable to that of phpMyAdmin. Check it out in this url https://www.phpliteadmin.org/.
Web: jsFiddle
Run javascript and share it in the web, jsfiddle! Know more about it in this link jsfiddle.net, check out their release at change logs.
Crash Course: Board Games
Today, we’re going to talk about board games, but instead of trying to trace their histories, which we’ve already covered a bit of in ep2 on ancient games, we’re going to look really closely at just two board games - Monopoly and The Settlers of Catan. These two games have been played by millions, and we’ll talk about why they’re so popular (and controversial), but more importantly these two games have helped define two approaches to board game design: the American style board game and the European style board game. Now these two different “styles” of board games are mostly just over-generalizations about board game mechanics and there’s a ton of overlap, but with the recent resurgence in board game popularity they help us more clearly define two discrete time periods in board game popularity and discuss how these approaches have been defined by the times.