SuiComics is a social web portal for creators and fans to self-publish their comic books, manga and graphic novels and monetise by means of virtual goods.
On Suinova Comics, readers not only enjoy the books but also play the casual games. The games are associated with the book content.
Creators prepare both the book content and the virtual items to be used in the games. Some of these items are called virtual goods to be bought by the readers.
- Deployed on Google AppEngine as web services;
- Integrated with Facebook as an application;
- Integrated PayPal and Google Checkout payment services;
- Readers read the content online and buy virtual goods from the content;
- Authors/Creators embed various virtual goods inside their content for sale;
- Reader enjoy a gallery game space to collect virtual goods;
- Authors can create quests for their content;
- The public deployment is facebook.com/suicomics
SuiComics is implemented on Google AppEngine. All you need is to create an application on Google AppEngine, and upload the lot to it.
To customise it for your own website, you need to modify the templates, as well as payment accounts.
The comics reading program as well as the games are developed using Flash/AS3. They are also open-sourced in another project. See http://github.com/tedwen/SuiComics-client.
Ted Wen
This software is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.