Last year, Bigpoint began using GitHub for open source projects. In this connection, a mandatory PHP repository should not be missing. That is why we published our first PHP-repository, a PHP-SDK that can be used to access an OAuth2 secured … Continue reading
End of last year we finally released our first projects on GitHub. Now it is time to blog about it. We are currently transitioning into using Opscode Chef to deploy our systems. That is why our first public GitHub projects … Continue reading
Once upon a time there was an active PHP user group in Hamburg, with interesting presentations and enough active members to have a meet-up once a month. This may sound like a fairy tale, especially since there has been no … Continue reading
Last week the International PHP Conference (short IPC) took place in Berlin. It’s one of the biggest PHP conferences in Germany. I attended for the second time and wanted to share my experiences. First of all the conference was well … Continue reading
Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence are quite important for our daily work. These highly-customizable tools are not something you install once and then never touch again. You need to optimize and develop them to get the best out of … Continue reading
This is the first part of a series of blog posts about Minimizing Data Size in 3D Browser Games (Intro), where we’ll look specifically at how hardware instancing is used for sharing and reusing 3D data as much as possible … Continue reading
Click’n’Play! A good browser game should start as fast as possible. The player clicks on a link, and (ideally) a few seconds later the action should start. No lengthy client download (or box unwrapping!), no installation process, not having to … Continue reading
Several hundred software engineers are working at Bigpoint creating exciting internal solutions as well as games played by millions of people. Last year we decided to get more involved with development communities and started in May 2011 when we held … Continue reading