Indie-Resource.com

An offer you may not skip, well... at least if php text games are something you are interested in. For a limited time, and to celebrate the move of the forums to Indie Resource, the full package will cost you only 20$ instead of 100$! Take it now while it last.

http://www.nw-engine.com/

Wow, just looking over the module list, I can tell you have put a ton of work into this. The sale will at least be on for a few days, right?

Should be on for about 30 days. And yes there is a lot of work behind this engine. A lot of thinking and planning has been involved too. Without saying a lot of annoyances due to PHP and oddies it produced.

However now the engine should be safe against:
- SQL injections (it pass all values through bindings)
- XSS are prevented as if you pass HTML tags the engine blocks your post even before calling the module (in the full version)
- CSRF should be prevented as well
- URL tinkering should be covered due to a CRC

Other key features:
- It's fully modular
- Forces browser caching of CSS and images
- Self installing (creates the tables and configuration and even download itself if you want to)
- Admin tools to modify nearly all, from texts to game content
- Enable / disable modules from within the admin tool
- Updates modules and install new modules from within the admin tool
- Send modules to the marketplace from within the admin tool
- Module skeleton creator
- Multi language support
- Ajax abstraction (you don't need to code in JS to make use of ajax)
- Module caching to speed up the execution
- Modules can offer "hooks" to be extended by other modules as well (many official modules do so).

What is really different from most modular approaches is that you don't code using OO extending some classes. Here your modules are nearly like standalone PHP file, you don't need to include anything all will be provided for you. Why? Because it is meant to be as simple as possible to start using it. So for expert coders it may look really odd at start (way to simple) yet, you shall see if you try it, that it is more powerful than it may look like at start.

I may just have to but this, still don't know why i haven't yet

The demo doesn't allow you to modify the DB which means no actions will actually do anything. This is to ensure nobody destroy the demo.

The tutorial is the same issue, you will not be able to run it inside the demo, but I can assure you it does work on the full engine once installed. I can't do much to make the demo look always the same and yet be able to test all sorry. The only other option would be to create a new installation in some sort of sandboxed environment each time somebody want to try the demo, however that would cost resources and time to set that up, without saying it's not given my server could handle it

So use the demo just to roughly see what the engine contains, but don't expect it to work.

Seriously alain!!!!!! GOD DAMN IT!!!!! 100$ TO 20$ I cant really lose that ahaha even if i dont use it! Still need to check for the money that i dont have
But good luck with the sales, you deserve every $

This is a great deal. I'd been debating the purchase, but the demo kind of left me flat (I understand it's locked down to keep people from messing with it) and I wasn't sure I wanted to drop $100 without seeing more. I will probably pick it up now. Thanks for doing this

OldRod wrote:This is a great deal. I'd been debating the purchase, but the demo kind of left me flat (I understand it's locked down to keep people from messing with it) and I wasn't sure I wanted to drop $100 without seeing more. I will probably pick it up now. Thanks for doing this

There are a few users around that can actually vouch for the quality... me included (though i don't like old bertie ), it's well worth the $100, so i don't even speak about the $20.
I have seen this engine since its early days, but my professional life tends to drive me away from coding for too long these days. Despite this, lately i've made a decision to re-launch an old game I had and my doubt was, keep the original engine, build a new one, or use yet another one... I almost got convinced by a_b, though what actually convinced me were the goodies and the actual ability for you to do _exactly_ what you want with that engine. The code well... (for me at least) is a going back to basics, as you need to actually learn the what is and what not of the engine, and its not an easy task (maybe it is for those who code every single day).

*subliminal*message*now i want the bribe money you promised*end*of*message*

If you guys want, I could setup a game instance where you can play with it as normal user. So the admin would be closed but you could register and try the player part of it. However remember it's an engine and not a pre-made game!