Author: Ally

PHP code for the Story Event Creation UI

//1) set specific actions to choose from // -fight // -clear out (specify item to clear the effect) // -get an item from //Give a list of available items as well //allow for on the fly item creation (generic icon)…

Character Customization

Found a base tutorial for what I needed to assemble the custom characters for players. https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/355/making-character-composed-of-multiple-parts I just love technology and how everything is coming together. So what am I using to build the visual portion? Since this application will be…

Ah finally artwork…

Found these amazing simplistic vector art tutorials while perusing the Construct 2 tutorials and forums. http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-15T23:53:00%2B10:00&max-results=7&start=70&by-date=false Its the style that I wanted to use with Troll-Me-A-Story and with this inspiration I will continue with the intended style. Though I am…

Simple Interaction

The DB is still being finessed because the structure is very complex however to get the general flow of the application going on the front end I am employing the use of dummy data. I will be disabling the “signup”…

Employing SVG and CraftyJS

So for the map portion of the project I needed to have a way that users could interact with the world and view the different area maps. With the random behavior that the stories could take I needed a way…

Initiate Events from Twitter?

Crazy, I know however it is very possible to have users cause events for other users from a simple twitter post. The way it would work is that the user on twitter would have to send/post a tweet with @trollmeastory…

DB design for Troll-Me-A-Story

So here is the database design for the MySQL database of the project. I had to rework it from the original design which was one large table. What is diagrammed above is the various tables and their relationships to one…

Twitter TakeFlight

I’m currently taking a #TakeFlight course on twitter to get a handle on their latest offerings and also how to better present my project on Twitter. It has information that I find intriguing and I do intend on including for…

Abstract

It took some time to work this abstract but it will probably have more changes to it in the near future. Social spheres such as Facebook and Twitter offer a rich foundation in which to engage the users to help…

DB Schema Design

Found a great application to help design the schema for the database of Troll-Me-A-Story. The best part is that it is available for free from MySQL. It is called MySQL workbench and it should help streamline the database creation portion…