The games displayed on StudioFortress can now be embedded in your site. At the bottom of each game you’ll now find the ‘HTML Embed Code’ box. Copy the HTML stored in this box and then paste it where you want the applet to appear on your site, just like you would when sharing a YouTube video!

The embed code is an object tag that embeds a special page built specifically to host the applet. This mean you don’t need any faffing about with any Applet HTML and any future changes to the applets HTML are automatically passed along to your site.

This is a feature I originally thought about adding months ago when I first started construction on the site but forgot until today. Now the site is all built it was pretty straight forward to add. It’s the sharing idea that I love about it, being able to push out content to users allowing them to use that content in any way they please. We’ve been able to do this trivially with pictures, music and video for a long time so why not games?

Finally please let me know if you experience any difficulties embedding applets by contacting me via the contact box on the About page. Then I can help and solve the issues quickly.

Welcome to my new blog: \o/ WOOOOOOOO! \o/

This is going to be a place where I will post various articles, thoughts, plans and general tid-bits that I write in conjunction with my site, StudioFortress.com.

To start I’m going to talk about ‘what is the point of StudioFortress?’. For a very long time I’ve been interested in game development but like many indie developers I have awesome ideas that get partly implemented and then just get passed around to a couple of friends (at most). I’ve always offered lots of advice on making games, but this is hard if you have nothing of your own to back it up (or more that you have nothing online to back it up). So the sites first aim is to be a place to host all my finished content. By building up a place with regular visitors exclusively showcasing my material; it helps to motivate me to show off all my work at a complete standard.

Note that last phrase ‘complete standard’. With StudioFortress setup and in place this is my second goal, to get projects finished. Not just so that the main gameplay is built and they don’t crash, but to a basic standard expected of any game. This is the 80% of the work that goes on top of the game to polish the graphics, sound, music, titles, endings, credits, splash screen, banners, instructions, high-scores, saving, multiplayer, player progression and much much more. Admittedly I haven’t added all the features listed in the previous sentence, but I intend to eventually add most of them as standard to all my titles.

Finally I intend one day (hopefully not too far away) to be producing games commercially. StudioFortress is my CV, resume and demo reel to show off my work so far: “You want examples? StudioFortress.com!” A ground work I can use to start building my own career or business on top.

But most of all, I hope people enjoy the games!

Joe.