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Dream City:Life Events is Now a Truly Online Game

I've finally been able to make Dream City:Life Events a truly online game which mean you can register your ID through the game and play the game from any computer connected to the Internet using the ID.

This mean you can log in the game through PC A and later log out the game. Your game progress will be automatically saved on the game database server. Later you can log in the game through PC B and will be able to load your saved progress in the game by pulling saved data from game database server. Is it nice?

In the future, once Flash playing capability is stable in Android tablet or mobile phone, you can also play the game through the device instead of playing it through netbook, laptop or desktop computer.

All of this possible through server side programming of PHP and MySQL database. The game Flash engine will communicate to MySQL database at webhosting server through PHP. PHP will convert the binary MySQL records into XML data which game Flash engine will use it as input for save game data.

The only problem I ran so far is I could not be able to show score ranking data through Flash but the ranking actually can be shown on ordinary web page. I need some time to figure out on how to solve the problem because previously it works.

My next challenge is to code relationship based feature into the game. I've been telling about this stuff on this blog for as long as I can remember but I didn't do it yet. Hmm, it's time to do it.