Reinventing (the wheel)

Piron Games is now looking like a portal. A really small portal. Because the Internet is not yet full of really small portals 🙂 Also because the next three games – more on the “road map”  in another post – will be released to promote the portal and promoting an empty space full of ads is not nice and productive. You need a couple of flashy thingies to fill the gaps between the ads 🙂

The graphics theme is, of course, “Missile Command” and the retro gaming that I enjoy most.

The previous static version was tossed down the drain and, instead, a state of the art (woohoo!) PHP and MySql web application, build on top of the wonderful CodeIgniter PHP framework, appeared.

I know squat about PHP, the last time I used it was a decade ago, same about MySql, excepting that I never ever use it, so I hacked into another wonderful application called Linkster. It’s quite amazing how many similarities are between an arcade and a directory. But anyway, Linkster is under GPL, so expect a release of the sources of this arcade someday in the future, when it will have all the features I dream of.

Speaking of features, although I added database support for high-scores and even for stats/badges (all hail normalization!), there’s still to work on an API for the actual flash games to send the high-scores. It’s on the TO-DO list. Because playing high-score enabled games is the next best thing 🙂