TRAUMA – Wrapping up Payments

Just a quick update today. It’s easter holidays and that means I have 4 days to spend on TRAUMA. The first two days are over and I’m pretty much done with the payment system.

A custom backend allows me to browse the databases of customers, orders, payments and download links to monitor the system and fix any issues.

I have now a working barebones skeleton to receive and process payments via PayPal. Customers are being entered in a database and receive a download link automatically. The download links expire if they are used too often or not at all. Customers can generate new download links on the website. I even wrote a nice, comfy backed so I don’t need to do customer service in phpMySQLAdmin.

It was perhaps unnecessary. On the other hand, I have a custom system I can easily expand upon and it works exactly the way I want it to. On top of that, I got some invaluable experience with the PayPal API which may come in handy in upcoming projects. It would be interesting to experiment with in-game payments in the future.

I will eventually publish the source of the payment engine. But for now I’m moving on to the front-end. Over the next two days I will design and implement the website I will actually exhibit TRAUMA on. It’s not an easy task. I was collecting references and inspirations over the last week or two. I need to come up with something that compliments the style of the game while actually doing it’s job as an online shop. I’m looking forward to it!