Like many other games on Facebook, the economy in SuperFunTown revolves around two types of currencies: Coins – the common currency needed to purchase most items in the game, earned by collecting rent from residential units and profit from goods sold at shops and factories. Cash – the rare currency needed to purchase special items …
Google Chrome is a nice little browser, fast as hell, and it even bundles and updates its Flash plugin all by itself. On the plus side, it means anyone running Chrome will always have the most up-to-date version of Flash player so good news for Flash game developers and web developers alike. On the down …
It’s been nearly two weeks since the official launch of SuperFunTown!, and over half a million players have joined in on the fun but many has yet to realise the full potential of their town because they’re still learning their way into the game. Whether you’ve started playing the game or are thinking of joining, …
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data transfer format widely adopted on the web because it’s lightweight compared to XML. I touched on the topic of JSON in an earlier post when I posted some extension methods for compressing/decompressing string. If you are unfamiliar with the JSON format or how it’s supported in .Net then …
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Months of work has finally bore fruit as my second game goes into public beta! Come and join in on the fun, it’s nice here: http://apps.facebook.com/superfuntown Go on! Try it out! Let us know what you think, your feedbacks are much appreciated! About the Game SuperFunTown is a city building game where you assume the …
In C#, there are two ways you can provide an alternative implementation of an inherited method: Override a virtual method Unlike Java where every method can be overridden by default unless marked with the final keyword, C# employs a safer, opt-in system where methods cannot be overridden unless marked with the virtual keyword. A virtual …
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Definition: CTP stands for Community Technology Preview, another fancy term for a ‘beta’ or ‘prototype’. RTM stands for Release To Manufacturing or Release To Market. References: Software release life cycle
I came across these two posts on Eric Lippert‘s blog yesterday which I found very interesting: Representation and Identity Cast operators do not obey the distributive law The blog posts go into a lot of details but long story short, if you box a value type you can’t unbox it to another type: It would …
If you try to serialize/deserialize a type which uses the generic Dictionary<TKey, TValue> type with the XmlSerializer then you’ll get an InvalidOperationException, for instance: Here’s my class: I’ll get an InvalidOperationException with an inner exception of type NotSupportedException when I do this: And the error message of the NotSupportedException is: “Cannot serialize member MyClass.MyDictionary of …
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