Category Archives: Games

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Elevation Game Separated Radio Buttons Primer Tutorial

If you were around for the recent Golden Ratio Game CSS Tutorial, and tried out this game, was it in the back (or front) of your mind, that if it had been you writing the code you’d have preferred to … Continue reading

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Golden Ratio Game Primer Tutorial

Today we have a Golden Ratio Game for you. In mathematics and architectural design, ther is a ratio of rectangular dimensions that appeals to the human pysche, and this magical irrational number, close to … 1.6180339887 … we gleaned from … Continue reading

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Job Search Grid Game Cookie Tutorial

Yesterday we got to a point with a web project we were working on called the “Job Search Grid Game” (and thanks here to Science Puzzles for Young Einsteins by Helene Hovanec ISBN 0-8069-3542-1 for the inspiration) and we ended … Continue reading

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Job Search Grid Game Tutorial

We are always on the lookout for a good quiz or game. But what if that idea is “sort of” … both? Well, we just had to give the dog a bone! But we digress. This is where we have … Continue reading

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Worldwide Country Quiz Game Moderation Tutorial

Blogs have become a bigger and bigger force in the online world. They allow for various forms of moderation from fully vetted to “allowed through to the keeper”. Today, for our quiz we add some functionality that is … suitable … Continue reading

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Worldwide Country Quiz Game Personalization Tutorial

You often come across the term “Personalization” with regard to software functionality. In broad brush terms we see the idea of … Personalization of software is a means by which functionality is handed over to the user to shape its … Continue reading

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Worldwide Country Quiz Game YouTube Tutorial

Building on our start to our “Worldwide Country Quiz” (game) project with Worldwide Country Quiz Game Primer Tutorial as shown below, today we add functionality that uses the marvellous YouTube API for embedding videos into HTML iframe elements, to offer … Continue reading

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Worldwide Country Quiz Game Primer Tutorial

It feels like we’ve been here before, because of Country Quiz Game Suite YouTube Tutorial‘s Flag/Capital/Currency “listy” approach, but the fact is, as you program, you find interesting alternative ways to do things, and you hope that alternative ways of … Continue reading

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