I remember back then, when Bloons Tower Defense 3 reached 10,000 game plays and it felt just like yesterday. I had to recently change my database from shortint to a mediumint in the column gameplays so that this could go over 65,535 plays. I can’t wait until 100,000 plays. Although Bloons Tower Defense 4 has come out, I still like Bloons Tower Defense 3 the most.
Coal Games gets a new site description
Ever since Coal Games has been launched (October 2008), we have been using the frontpage description “Coal Games is a flash games arcade to play fun games and has many games including racing games, shooting games, survival games, strategy games.”
I have decided to change this. Therefore, as of 6 December 2009, the description has been changed to:
“Coal Games is a flash game website that serves the best quality games so that gamers will not have to sort through a sea of games to find a good game.”
The quote above is exactly 150 characters.
Blog updates less often as more work on Coal Games is done
I will again start to work on Coal Games Project now. Games will not be updated for a while (but as you can see, I recently added a new game). After I get finished with users, scheduled tasks, admin panel, and a lot of other important things, a lot of new games will be added and a lot of unpopular games will be removed.
I will be documenting my developments on Joshtime.
Blog is not as active here.
This blog might not be posted on so much because I now have a personal blog at Josh Time.
At this blog, I will talk about Coal Games related stuff as well as tutorials, reviews, and other interesting information.
Please visit Josh Time if you want to learn more about Coal Games.
Happy Thanksgiving
The Coal Games Project has a version 0.0.1 released a long time ago. Just for fun, I fixed a lot of bugs in 0.0.1 and is now on sourceforge.
Coal Games First Birthday
Today is Coal Games’ first birthday.
A about page has been put up talking about Coal Games.
http://www.coalgames.com/about.php
Happy Birthday Coal Games!
Domain Renewed
The domain www.coalgames.com domain has been renewed. Its first birthday is coming up soon on October 18, the day that the domain www.coalgames.com was created.
Upcoming Forum Addition
I have been thinking about a better way to communicate with users recently. Soon, a forum will be added. I have looked at many different ones.
- PhpBB: I have used this for over 2 years but has too many features and is quite slow
- SMF: I have just tried this choice. SMF is somewhat simple with a lot of updates. Currently at beta 2.0, I do not want to use the old 1.1 but the current 2.0 is in beta mode so this might not be a good choice. Also, the SMF forums poses a lot of limitations so in the future, SMF might not be able to be distributed with the Coal Games Arcade Script.
- PunBB: This bulletin board looks promising and the database has few tables which would be easy to integrate with the upcoming Coal Games login system.
A bridge to the forum system would be tricky to make but possible. I might have to settle for that users will have to login in at the main site and another time at the forums.
If you have any suggestions, please post a comment here.
Comment Spammers
Some people have ben trying to use Coal Games to advertise or post inappropriate messages. Luckily, comments need to be approved by an administrator in order to appear on the front page. This way, spam will be kept at a minimum and there won’t be any inappropriate content.
The only type of comments accepted are if they relate to Coal Games. If it is a question, just drop us a line at info@coalgames.com.
Contact Information
Recently, people have started to have questions. So if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@coalgames.com and we will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
New Login Feature
The login feature is almost complete. With this next release of Coal Games, there will be few features but the framework is done and rapid development will start. The login features are almost done and user will be able to register, login, logout, change password and accumulate points. The way points work will be announced when the update goes live.
Bloons Tower Defence 3 reaches 10,000 game plays
Bloons Tower Defence 3 is the first game on Coal Games to reach 10,000 game plays. Bloons Tower Defence 3 is actually the number 1 game on Coal Games right as of right now. During the development stages of Coal Games, the first game ever was Bloons Tower Defence 3 and it was the only game that came with Coal Games 0.0.1.
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Blog now fixed
Some addons have been added onto the Coal Games blog and now should be running better than before. This will allow the Coal Games blog to be faster. Pages will be compressed, css and javascript will be compressed with gzip and cache files will be set longer.
July 2009 Updates
The July updates for 2009 are coming soon. The developer will have more time to develop since it is summer. Coal Games has been quite inactive for quite a while now. The 46 games have not changed since a long time. Here are a list of the new updates you should anticipate. An administration panel has been done so games will be added.
- Login System
- Game Thumbnails
- Removal of very unpopular games
- More high quality games
- More Updates of the current developments
- Coal Games History (Detailed information about the history of Coal Games)
Those are most of the updates for July. When Coal Games gets more momentem, more features will be added.
Comments Open
Comments are now open to everyone to post. Before comments are placed, they will be moderated.
Coal Games Outlook
Coal Games will now post the big news updates right here. Later, this blog will be incorporated with the front page of Coal Games.
Coal Games Blog has been launched
Today, Coal Games has launched a wordpress blog using Wordpress 2.7.1.
Future of Coal Games
As work on Coal Games resumes, this means that updates will be up on Coal Games soon. The last time Coal Games was updated was on June 2009. My goal is to be done with this current wave of updates by March 2010.
My updates planned for March 2010 are:
Users
Scheduled Tasks (prune old sessions)
Admin Panel
Forums?