While there was a competition over at BBGameZone we started an irc channel for the developers to talk about their games and to review the competition. This irc channel was so much fun that, after the competition was over, we decided to create a more general #bbg channel on freenode. Untill now it has been more a thing for members of BBGameZone, but now I’m inviting you to join us!

I added this to the “Projects Page”. Here is a direct link (fill in a nickname and #bbg as channel): http://webchat.freenode.net/

I just cleaned up and commented a basic game map. It’s for you, free to use. I hope I can help some one by giving away this code. It’s nothing “big” or “difficult” but it might help some of you who are really starting out in making browser games. Also, I’m giving away my hand drawn tile set for free. I hope you like my programmer art ;D.

Any feedback, suggestions, bug reports and requests are more than welcome. Especially I would love it if people would take my basic map and do a lot more with it. At the moment I have a slightly more advanced version for the General’s Map prototype, which has unit movement and AJAX calls — but I thought that giving away this basic map would be a lot more useful for most people.

Disclaimer: It’s only tested with Google Chrome on windows.

Features:

• Tile rendering in multiple layers
• Clickable objects
• Movement by using the arrow keys

The HTML file

The javascript file

Free Hand Drawn Tileset

Demo

Hope you like it!

I run this blog for no money and I ask for no money, and I try to keep it add free, because I love what I do. I’d love to see the PBBG community work better together to create better games, that’s exactly why I’m doing stuff like this. That said, if you really want to donate I wouldn’t want to take away that from you, so here’s a nice lil’ button:

The browser based game zone competition, I announced a while ago, has ended. Sadly a few entries couldn’t finish in time, due to different reasons. The final entries and their score you can find here.

The winner

Wicked Dead came out this competition as the winner and it is a fun game, you should definitely check it out.

Learn from the process

The most interesting about the BBGameZone competitions are not the finished games though but it is watching the process they went through. So if you want to read through the game developers’ updates check out this page.

Chris, a reputable member on the BBGameZone forums, was so kind to “write down” his view on the development of his game during this competition:

Read more…

If you are having a hard time to finish your PBBG projects and if you are looking for motivation you should listen up! The bbgamezone community is organising it’s second PBBG competition.

There are no prizes to win but the competition should motivate you to code your game a whole lot faster. Your objective? Create a working game in one month! This should motivate some people to start coding their game and also to prototype neat ideas. If you check out the people that already started in the competition you will see that there are some very interesting ideas.

The use of code snippets from previous projects is encouraged. So if you have a very basic game already you can probably join in too. If you are not joining the competition you should at least follow the people updating on their progress. Very interesting!

For more information you should check out the bbgamezone forum:

Official competition 2010

Competition progress

Everybody can join but be fast since the competition has started already!