How to Make Drag & Drop Games

Choose a drag and drop game's theme, such as a military adventure or a spy game.

Create the objective for the game as well as the playing rules, keeping your game's theme in mind. For instance, design a virtual game board with clues as well as hidden icons. Once the players discover the icons, they will collect points towards winning the game.

It is also important to design a game that is age specific. Make sure to include a disclosure regarding age appropriateness.

Set up the amount of virtual players for your game. For example, certain games require several players and other drag and drop games are played individually. Making this decision is necessary to select your drag and drop game website template in the following steps.

Choose a game website template which includes the drag and drop feature by reviewing and playing with the game template examples offered by your template provider. Certain providers showcase their website template portfolios online. You will be able to view screenshots of the template as well as the features which are included within the template. The screenshots are the game's template page enlargements. Make sure the template you are selecting fits with your drag and drop game design.

Choose a hosting site which is able to support the features of your drag and drop game by comparing your template's requirements to the hosting site's capabilities. The template provider generally recommends hosting websites that have supported their template features.

Draw your game pieces in your graphic design software program. Although most personal computers have a basic program pre-installed, using a graphic program with different design features will help you create stylized icons which will engage your virtual players as the game progresses.

Upload the game pieces from Step 6 into your website's template. Although you will most likely not be able to re-design existing game website template images, you can have more features. Certain templates will require specific software, such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, or Expression Web to edit hotmail (HTML) codes, which are written sequences creating specific images in your website. The template provider will also require specific software such as Photoshop to edit the pre-existing graphics.

Play the game as a run through test prior to publishing on the Internet. Make sure the game's playing instructions, rules and objectives are clear and easy to understand.

Create a free game for your virtual players. You will also have to determine if you will be offering your virtual players paying drag and drop game alternatives or subscriptions to certain games.