With the introduction of Facebook Game Development, there
has been a new platform evolved for all the online gamers. Game development on
the social media sites is not anything new. Sites such as MySpace and others
even provide online games for the social media gaming lovers. When it is about
Facebook, the game developers depend on the Flash and Action Script. These two
programming languages are surely favorites with the developers as there are not
much efficient languages to produce interactive games. Few of the famous
Facebook gaming apps that have been sustained from the starting and are really
famous are:
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Sam’s
Solitaire
FlipCup
Challenge
Sheep
Tycoon
There are various Flash Facebook API’s that you can make
use to create Facebook online games. However, many facebook game developers
prefer going for PHP over the Flash. With PHP, you can easily make an invisible
0x0 frame so as to load a PHP script to call all the Facebook APIs in an
effective way. It is really handy to create the database dynamic. For instance,
if there is a latest high score, you simply need to load the script in the
frame. This goes perfectly well with creating any sort of Facebook API or even
sending notifications.
The other step is to get all your friends on Facebook.
You can simply do it by getting the iDS of your friends and then passing it by
the game making use of Flash vars. There is barely any chance of altering the
friends list while the game is functional. The methodology is simple and easy.
Once the friends id is added in the database, you can simply do whatever you
wish to do with it. Many Facebook Game Developers make use of the list to display
the high score made their friends. For instance, the app Sheep tycoon operates
this way. it displays all the high scores of all the players with the list
format.
Many Facebook Game Developers are not able to decide that
whether they shall show the high scores in the games or in a separate PHP page.
However, majority of them prefer the latter option as it is a faster approach.
The trickier section is the recording of the high scores and then publishing
them worldwide. One the most favorite Database of the Facebook developers is
the MySQL. You do not only can record the high scores but even order them in
accordance to the wish like score, time and much more. One big issue with
managing the high scores is the calculation part. There are several methods to do
that. For instance, in Flip Cup, the player ranks are updated by the database
when any such change occurs. Global Ranks are then calculated again on the
scorecard page.
Game development on
sites such as Facebook is getting really popular with every passing day as many
more businesses are now realizing the potential in creating the brand
awareness.
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