Start is Hard

Starting is always hard.
Not enough ideas, not good plan, voices in your head (like: why am I doing it?!)... but hey let's just start!

Warning!
This blog is not going to be like all blogs which like to be only theoretical about PHP games.
But this post is :)

Browser based games can be divided in next genres:

1. Strategy
2. Action
3. RPG
4. Sports
5. Business

So when you have decided about genre you need to make GOOD plan for your game. Coding is easy with good plan and good economy. But how to achieve that?

1. Try to write down everything about your future game (in short form)
   
2. Create Game Design Document (where you explain all mechanism of your game)
3. USE Excel (MS or Open ones...it does not matter), to produce your starting economy (will explain this more later)

This is all you need BEFORE you even start coding ... if you want to produce decent game.
So more about economy; it depends on what game are you making, but basically it goes like this:

• try to write all prices down and all items (if any)
• make and test formulas you would use, and compare different versions
• use graphs to see your work
• try to make everything connected (so if you change one price, then everything connected to this value changes - so you do not need to fix several things)

Now we have prepared all we need and coding can start.