Behind-The-Scenes of a Board Games Website

Milestone Reached - Development::Games Engine Complete

Yup, you read it right. This weekend saw a concerted effort to finish building the core FMG games engine completing the core functionality of the site. I've spent the last three or four weeks coding away, rewriting, trying to deal with the complex state engine under the surface, and finally ...

The New FMG Games Engine

Wow! 25 days since the last post - apologies for the delay in getting this next post up, time seems to fly when you've got your head down programming! (For New Visitors, FastMovingGames is a new online service for board gamers that I’m developing - Read more about the vision here) These ...

Funding a Board Games Website

I've been thinking about how to fund a board games site like FastMovingGames. Unfortunately, I'm just a hobby coder, so I don't have a budget to help market the website and pay the various costs associated with the site so I have to be a little more inventive! (For New ...

The Engine Behind this Board Games Website

Over the last few weeks I've been building the core engine behind FMG's main concept. The engine is literally the workhorse of the website - working away behind the scenes and providing the main functionality that will (hopefully) make the site so appealing and useful to board gamers! On Concept... I'm still a ...

Inside the Mind of a Board Gamer

I thought I'd share with you some of the information and trends that I'm already starting to see with this preview site to give you an interesting look at some of our potential gaming community. One of the reasons for me releasing this preview site was to spread the word and ...

Milestone Reached - Games Module Complete

This week sees another milestone crossed off the list - having pretty much completed the games module. Well, that's not entirely true, as there's a few dependencies on the core games engine before I can finalize some of the pages, but the main meat of the games pages ...

Board Games Search

This week I've been working on getting the board games search module functioning using the nifty tricks I talked about last time. This post gives you a sneak preview of the work in progress of the games search module and shows you how it works using a few examples. Bear in mind ...

Ever Played the Board Game Carcuson?

How do you spell Carcassonne again? Is it one s and two n's or two s's and one n? Actually it's two s's and two n's according to the Geek. "So what?" I hear you ask - well, part of the final site builds on the current board games list ...

Milestone Reached - Development::Framework Complete

Progress!! The first milestone on building this new site for board gamers has been completed at last. For those that have been following the progress of FastMovingGames and read the website development plan I posted a week ago, then you'll know that building a site like this requires a significant ...

Visual Design and Web 2.0

Design, visual style, and fashion trends are more fickle in the online world than they are in the real world. Technology and online tastes seem to change so fast that if you're not committed about doing something soon, then by the time you get around to it there'll probably ...