Building "Strategy" Browser Games

Preface

1. Distribution Permission
2. Forewords
3. Disclosures
4. Disclaimer
5. Workbook Content
6. > For Patrons from Amazon and other Book Distributors
7. > About this Workbook
8. > How to Read & Use this workbook:
9. > Viewing the eBook:
10. > External Links
11. > References Used
12. Your newly obtained skills …
13. More Resources
14. Programming Courses
15. IPart I — Concept & Design

1Introduction to “Code-less” Game Design

1. Approaching Game Development
2. Focusing Your Game
3. 1.1Game Genres Defined
4. GG Interactive — Game Design Course
5. 1.2Game Delivery Modes
6. > Mobile “In Apps Purchases” (IAP) ROI
7. 1.3Game Tools & Generators

2Project Management Overview

1. 2.1Demo Game License(s)
2. 2.2Game Recipe™ just add Artwork, stir, & season to taste!
3. 2.3Development:
4. Adventures of Renown — Rogue Prince™ “Elevator Speech”
5. 2.4Design:
6. > Deeper Dive: How Browser Games Load
7. Deconstructing Gameplay
8. 2.5Design Consideration: Background Stories
9. > Deeper Dive: Putting Stories in the Wrong Place
10. Seven Deadly Sins of Strategy Game Design
11. 2.6Construct’s “Code-less” Encoding
12. > Deeper Dive: Creating Display Mechanisms — a 4-Step method

3“Strategy” & “Decision Science” Genre

1. Digital Strategy Games Are Broken!
2. 3.1Types of Strategy Games
3. 3.2Historical background?
4. 3.3Common Strategy Game Characteristics
5. Advantages and Disadvantages of Decision Trees
6. Disadvantages of Decision Trees
7. 3.4What’s Your Competition Doing?
8. > Your Targeted Market — Who’s Playing What?
9. What is your favorite game genre? — Separating Developers from Gamers!
10. 3.5Review your competition and their games
11. Game Examples

4“Common Core Construction”

1. 4.1Game Mechanics (GM): Data Structures
2. > Data Design Considerations
3. > Following the herd? - Using expected “Convention”
4. > Terrain and Unit Symbols
5. Historical Military Symbols Usage
6. 4.2Turn-based Gameplay
7. > Deeper Dive: Multi-Player versions
8. 4.3Game Framework Mechanisms (GFM)
9. > Deeper Dive: Properly Using D.R.Y. “Event Sheets” as “Includes”!
10. How to Succeed at Making One Game a Month
11. 4.4Part I: Conclusion
12. IIPart II: C2 Production
13. ACTUALLY START THE DAMN GAME …

5Lesson 1: Game Project Launch

1. 5.1Game Mechanics Used:
2. 5.2C2 Project Creation
3. > About Your Project:
4. > Project Settings:
5. > Configuration Settings
6. Customized Loaders
7. 5.3Design Considerations: CMS, PWA, or SWPA?!
8. > Creating a C2 SWPA Game Version?
9. > Creating a C2 CMS or PWA Game Version?
10. > Other Visual Layouts
11. 5.4Comparing your code

6Lesson 2: Strategic Map(s) & Gameplay

1. 6.1Gameboard Terrain
2. 6.2Deeper Dive: Hexagonal Maps
3. 6.3Comparing your code

7Lesson 3: Map Exploration during Gameplay

1. 7.1Design Consideration
2. 7.2Neutral Settlements & Garrisons
3. 7.3“Hidden Objects” Game Mechanics

8Lesson 4: Troops & Heroes Data Records

1. 8.1Menu Options
2. 8.2Games ARE databases!
3. > Neutral Garrison & Location records
4. > Troop records
5. > Hero records

9Lesson 5: Pre-Battle Deployment Layout

1. 9.1Menu Options
2. 9.2Design Considerations
3. 9.3Comparing your code

10Lesson 6: “Conduct the Battle” Layout

11Lesson 7: Battle Narratives

1. IIIPart III: C3 Production
2. ACTUALLY START THE DAMN GAME …

12Lesson 1: C3 Game Product Launch

1. 12.1Game Mechanics Used:
2. 12.2C3 Project Creation
3. > About Your Project:
4. > Project Settings: Color Theme, Start-up & Display
5. Customized Loaders
6. > Configuration Settings: Advanced & Editor
7. 12.3Design Considerations: CMS, PWA, or SWPA?!
8. 12.4Creating a C3 SWPA Game Version?
9. 12.5Creating a C3 CMS or PWA Game Version?
10. > Other Visual Layouts
11. 12.6Comparing your code

13Lesson 2: Strategic Map(s) & Gameplay

1. 13.1Gameboard Terrain
2. 13.2Deeper Dive: Hexagonal Maps
3. 13.3Comparing your code

14Lesson 3: Map Exploration during Gameplay

1. 14.1Design Consideration
2. 14.2Neutral Settlements & Garrisons
3. 14.3“Hidden Objects” Game Mechanics

15Lesson 4: Troops & Heroes Data Records

1. 15.1Menu Options
2. 15.2Games ARE databases!
3. > Neutral Garrison & Location records
4. > Troop records
5. > Hero records

16Lesson 5: Pre-Battle Deployment Layout

1. 16.1Menu Options
2. 16.2Design Considerations
3. 16.3Comparing your code

17Lesson 6: “Conduct the Battle” Layout

18Lesson 7: Battle Narratives

1. IVPart IV: Expanding Your Prototype

19Lesson 8: Adding Unique Features.

1. 19.1Deeper Dive: Creating “Add-ons” & “Extensions”
2. 19.2Deeper Dive: Creating External Project Files?
3. 19.3“Play Again?”
4. > Lesson Instructions
5. > Reset the Global Variables.
6. 19.4A Better “Game Start”?
7. 19.5Customize an Avatar?
8. 19.6Integrating Multiple Languages??
9. How Languages Got Their Directionality by Steph Koyfman April 28, 2021
10. Right-To-Left Languages
11. Top-To-Bottom Languages
12. Content languages market position report.
13. Compare Who uses the Internet as compared to their language.
14. 19.7Main Menu as a “Campaign Gallery”?
15. 19.8Saving & Loading Game Sessions
16. 19.9In-Game Module (IGM) Editor
17. 19.10Membership System, Logins, & Registrations
18. VStarting Your Own Game Studio!

20Lesson 9: One “GM” to Rule them all!

21Lesson 10: Capstone — Exchanging Artwork

1. D.R.Y. Speed Limit — 5 GPH (Games Per Hour)!
2. 21.1Abstract Strategy Games
3. Three Musketeers game board
4. Hnefatafl game board
5. Blue & Gray — a US Civil War “GM Jump-to-Capture”
6. Single-player Variations
7. “EinStein würfelt nicht!”
8. Cathedral — Strategy Board Game for Two Players
9. 21.2Military Strategy Games
10. Napoleon at Waterloo
11. Gameplay
12. Victory conditions
13. 21.3Diplomatic & Political Strategy Games
14. VIWhat’s next?
15. “How to publish a game on the web??”

22Game Distribution & Marketing

1. 22.1Introduction: 8-Step Deployment Method.
2. 22.2Port to a Console
3. 22.3Selling Directly — The Advantages
4. Shareably (SBLY) looking to rent your games
5. 22.4Book Review Protocol
6. 22.5Tell the world about your game!

23Conclusion

1. VIIBonus Development Content

24Rogue Prince™ Guides

1. 24.1Player’s Guide

25Instructor’s Workshops & Educational Guides

1. 25.1Workshops Available
2. 25.2Certification Examination

26Rogue Prince™ Administrator Guide

1. 26.1Settings
2. Realistic Missile Fire Ranges …
3. 26.2Advanced Rules

27Rogue Prince™ Developer’s Guide

1. 27.1“Event Sheets” Index & Game Flow
2. > External CMS Pages
3. > Demonstration Game — deployed as a “client-side” SWPA edition.
4. 27.2Supporting Layouts & Event Sheets
5. 27.3Avatar Editor
6. Avatar Storage Options
7. 27.4IGM Editor
8. Appendix

More Resources …

1. “You don’t know JS Yet” by Kyle Simpson
2. Construct Demos

Appendix: Game Developer Tool Kits

1. Artwork Resources
2. Selling your Game Artwork & Assets
3. JavaScript Garden

Additional Appendices

Appendix: Making WebXR Games!

Appendix: “How to Start a WebSocket”

1. Testing Your Browser
2. Test sites:
3. WebSocket Protocol Handshake
4. > Deeper Dive: WebSocket API
5. Sample Source Code: Client-side WebSocket
6. >Step #1: Game index page
7. >Step #2: Generate Event handlers
8. Appendix: Safe JavaScript Using OLOO
9. JS Objects: “TL;DR”
10. 15.2.2 Inside the body of a class definition
11. Deeper Dive: JS Delegation (aka “Inheritance”?)
12. The old way
13. “Object-Oriented JavaScript Pattern Comparison”
14. ECMA-262 7th Edition / June 2016
15. Objects Linking to Other Objects (OLOO)
16. Compare your code
17. Object.create
18. Exercise Lesson 9:
19. Exercise 1
20. Game Singletons
21. Deeper Dive: Object Manipulation objects in ES5/6
22. Lesson Summary
23. Resource References: