By Pete on February 4, 2010
A recent start up, Renegade Games has launched a unique genre of game, described by creator Peter Zaborszky as “A mix of social, economic and political games, SimRepublic combines elements from farming games, city building games, and politics games, creating an on line virtual world where everyone can find a niche of their own, all [...]
Full Story »By Pete on January 6, 2010
For the past 2-3 months I have been 100% focused on building an ad network, while at the same time optimising adverts on my own websites so that I get the biggest return possible on my traffic (usually called maximum ecpm). Not only have I been using adverts that I have sold myself, I have [...]
Full Story »By Pete on October 30, 2009
There are certain types of people who are quite rare, but are extremely valuable. These are the ones who throughout their lives, try to seek information about absolutely everything they encounter. If they face something new in their lives, they seek out as much information as they can about it. It is worth mentioning, that [...]
Full Story »By Pete on September 23, 2009
Recently I have been looking into buying some secure VPN for myself, in case I ever wanted to browse the net securely. To do this completely anonymously, you would need to buy a secure vpn connection, this starts from around $30 per month. I am not sure about the speed though and reliability. There is [...]
Full Story »By Pete on September 15, 2009
Soon I will be releasing a beta version of the new Republic-Online, it will even have a completely new name. I must say I have used A LOT of AJAX to build it, and it is phenomenal what you can do with it with a bit of creativity. Javascript is already powerful in manipulating web [...]
Full Story »By Pete on July 16, 2009
After a few months of building good relationships with game owners, ApexWebGaming has opened a forum where game owners can come and discuss problems, successes about running a game. The forum is aimed at the small, browser based game owner community, who list their games on the ApexWebGaming directory. Currently, there has not been anywhere [...]
Full Story »By Pete on June 16, 2009
We can break addiction down into two categories, one where someone is addicted to a certain substance, usually because the body is used to having it in the body and “can’t live without it”. For example, cigarettes. However, we can also get addicted without it being a substance, addicted to a certain routine, certain activities. [...]
Full Story »By Pete on June 9, 2009
I think the arrival of the Nintendo Wii has proved to everyone that it is not just geeks and gadget guys, and mostly male audiences that can enjoy computer games. Nintendo actually managed to bring gaming to everyone, without taking a big risk themselves, all they did was change the controller, and build some games [...]
Full Story »By Pete on May 26, 2009
When I was younger, and still, my favourite genre of game is construction/simulation games. Mostly, the games that usually started with the name “Theme”, or ended with the name “Tycoon”. My all time favourite is Capitalism II, I think it is a very advanced business simulation game. I always though if I could complete Capitalism [...]
Full Story »By Pete on May 19, 2009
Recently I’ve spent my days working like poets used to in the 19th century, in cafes. I must say it is a very interesting, and highly entertaining at times. I’m quite good at multi tasking as I find it quite easy to work and listen in on other people’s converstations at the same time. Back [...]
Full Story »By Pete on April 22, 2009
Renegade Games has acquired one of the highest quality game top lists, ApexWebGaming. This will be an easy platform for them to advertise their games. ApexWebGaming is one of the older game top lists out there, and is known in the gaming community for sending quality traffic to games. The principle of the website is [...]
By Pete on March 24, 2009
I think negotiating is one of the most fun things to do. It gives you a big thrill, and a real sense of achievement. Apart from a few good negotiations, up until about 21 years old I didn’t really negotiate very much. It was scary, and I didn’t have the social skills to do it. [...]
By Pete on March 20, 2009
I have been testing out online games this week, trying to identify how the top games capture new players. I must say in terms of signup up, most games fail miserably, signing up is terribly complicated and user unfriendly. However once users have signed up, it’s a different question, top games are quite clever. Something [...]
By Pete on March 12, 2009
I’ve been researching micropayments for the games that we have. The most obvious payment site that everyone usually starts with is Paypal, but since they have a flat fee of at least 20p on each transaction, taking smaller payments, even £1 is not worth it. There are two things to consider, one is the transaction [...]
By Pete on February 2, 2009
One of the first browser based games has been acquired by Renegade Games, a UK online gaming start-up backed by private equity from Fubra Ltd. Planetarion is a game originally started in 2000 by Norwegian developers. It was the very first text-based browser game in the space field. It defined the genre of space based, [...]