In this article, we turn the single level prototype into a real game by adding multi-level dungeons (in fact infinite levels) and experience level for the player.

Object-oriented programming has become the de facto standard in larger PHP applications in the recent years. This summary will introduce you to the key concepts of object-oriented programming in PHP.

The recent appearance of high quality CSS preprocessors gives us new ways of keeping a maintainable and well organised style sheets. This article introduces one such preprocessor: LESS.

Have you ever developed a multilingual website? If so, you may have encountered the same problem as I have: how to translate the application's user interface?

In this article, we add a menu at the start of the game and a 'pause menu' while playing the game. This makes it possible to start a new game once you win or die.

In this part, we will implement saving and loading the game to be able to close it and resume it later. We will use libtcod's zip toolkit.

If you've ever managed a website using a CMS, be it Drupal, Wordpress or other, you probably noticed how certain elements get inserted into the page content using some barely readable code in brackets or curly braces, that gets replaced with actual content dynamically. This article will show you how to harness this.

This article is an optional "extra" that implements more generic items, making it possible to create new items with less code. It can be applied on article 9 source code.

In this article, we'll start to add diversity to the gameplay by adding three new spells :

• lightning bolt : deals damage to the closest enemy
• fireball : powerful area effect spell
• confusion : turns the selected enemy into a randomly wandering zombie for a few turns

This article will cover the creation of items that you can pick and an inventory screen to use them.