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sep 13 at 21:18
Xbox thumbstick used to rotate sprite, basic formula makes it “stick” or feel “sticky” at 90 degree intervals! How do you get smooth rotation? — SomeWritesReserved 63518
sep 13 at 18:48
How can I easily create cloud texture maps? — postgoodism 857215
sep 11 at 17:06
Why do pixel shaders not let us read directly from the framebuffer or the depth buffer? — Josh Petrie 30k562117
sep 9 at 4:48
How can I create a “night sky” effect in OpenGL? — Josh Petrie 30k562117
sep 7 at 17:16
XNA ContentManager.Load causes string allocation — Jonathan Dickinson 5,114932
sep 4 at 13:18
What exactly does an installer do and why might I need one? — Byte56 32.9k566125
sep 4 at 13:18
Which software licenses cover my needs? — Byte56 32.9k566125
sep 3 at 16:28
How do I render a mirror or other reflective surfaces? — Ricket♦ 10.3k3265
sep 2 at 9:17
How to handle pixel-perfect collision detection with rotation? — David Gouveia 17.7k23970
aug 30 at 22:10
Tweaking AStar to find closest location to unreachable destination — BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft 3,5371224
aug 30 at 22:10
How do I disable texture filtering for sprite scaling in XNA 4.0? — Andrew Russell 14.5k32970
aug 30 at 16:20
How does Flow Field pathfinding work? — tenpn 4,18721637
aug 30 at 8:35
How to get our music into games? — Tetrad♦ 24.7k660113
aug 29 at 17:39
Should I distribute shaders in a compiled form or in plain text? — Tapio 2,0951414
aug 29 at 17:39
GLSL vertex shaders with movements vs vertex off the screen — edA-qa mort-ora-y 466310
aug 27 at 9:43
outline object effect — Martin Sojka 4,0291126
aug 23 at 19:26
Should NPC dialog be stored in XML or in a script? — AbstractChaos 1,01719
aug 23 at 15:21
what can be done to improve the ultimate insane real time strategy game AI? — tenpn 4,18721637
aug 20 at 5:03
How can I define a complex collision area on top of a tile map? — David Gouveia 17.7k23970
aug 18 at 6:52
How to structure a simple game server for a multiplayer game? — slicedlime 47358
aug 17 at 12:12
what is the name of the group of properties: position, velocity, acceleration, rotation — Sean Middleditch 9,42511130
aug 16 at 11:25
How do you cope mentally with one very long piece of work — Laurent Couvidou 5,73911235
aug 15 at 5:29
How to make an arrow land at a specific position in 3D world space — Jimmy 3,479823
aug 13 at 14:53
How should I structure an extensible asset loading system? — Josh Petrie 30k562117
aug 12 at 22:02
What was the typical toolchain for DOS game development? — Sean Middleditch 9,42511130
aug 10 at 14:45
Small adventure game — knight666 4,146720
aug 9 at 8:37
Do higher-level 'Pure AI' concepts (such as Neural-Nets or Genetic Algos) ever get implemented successfully in commercial games? — Kylotan 18.3k2567
aug 7 at 1:58
How to design and implement turn-based system? — ZorbaTHut 7,9702240
aug 6 at 15:52
Get position of point on circumference of circle, given an angle? — George Duckett 2,3391020
aug 6 at 7:32
What platform were old TV video games developed on? — Michael Madsen 869711
aug 2 at 11:47
Started game development no idea of computer graphics. Should I learn tools or concepts? — Marton 1,506314
aug 2 at 1:20
What is the proper term for “permanent world”? — Yannbane 4,1991249
aug 1 at 15:53
How to code a simple torch light? — Laurent Couvidou 5,73911235
jul 31 at 19:03
Path finding algorithms? — David Gouveia 17.7k23970
jul 30 at 17:27
Rendering only what is on the screen — ChrisF 6281414
jul 27 at 14:39
Best practices for communication between game designer and artist — DampeS8N 1,776517
jul 26 at 7:48
Why use this equation to get a percentage? — Byte56 32.9k566125
jul 23 at 15:52
How is AI most commonly implemented in popular games? — Kylotan 18.3k2567
jul 23 at 15:27
How to deal with D3DX .dll hell? — Josh Petrie 30k562117
jul 23 at 15:27
Drawing very large slowly rotating planets — Joe Wreschnig 13.2k33468
jul 21 at 22:13
How do history generation algorithms work? — Byte56 32.9k566125
jul 21 at 0:22
Not sure how to handle “deceleration” — David Young 2,6241629
jul 20 at 18:30
How do I get the height of an XNA SpriteFont? — Blau 2,28049
jul 18 at 11:53
How to generate water pools on a 2D tile grid? — thalador 275210
jul 17 at 21:08
Map with 20 million tiles makes game run out of memory, how do I avoid it? — Byte56 32.9k566125
jul 15 at 12:41
Do I require a game engine when I want to make a game? — Byte56 32.9k566125
jul 10 at 20:11
How much assembly is really used in modern game code? — Kylotan 18.3k2567
jul 10 at 18:01
Sharing functions across multiple shaders — Nathan Reed 13.4k11743
jul 9 at 14:31
Fixed-Function vs Shaders: Which for beginner? — Nathan Reed 13.4k11743
jul 6 at 21:30
Make pygame's frame rate faster — talljosh 654711
jul 6 at 19:39
Why aren't tangent space normal maps completely blue? — Nathan Reed 13.4k11743
jul 6 at 19:39
What are the advantages of tangent space normals over object space normals? — Nicol Bolas 15.7k13159
jul 5 at 18:39
Keeping user's attention with tycoon style games — thedaian 3,81711224
jul 3 at 0:58
Game planning and software design? I feel that UML is not convenient — Kylotan 18.3k2567
jul 2 at 15:47
Role of systems in entity systems architecture — Byte56 32.9k566125
jul 1 at 19:22
What term is used to refer to iPhone and Android games? — Ricket♦ 10.3k3265
jul 1 at 0:46
Book about Entity System? — Kai 1,060211
jun 29 at 18:00
Is this masters course worth taking? — Laurent Couvidou 5,73911235
jun 29 at 16:20
Teamwork in Unity — Kevin Laity 5711710
jun 28 at 8:14
Random map generation — Byte56 32.9k566125
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