2D games are drawn in a two-dimensional space using two-dimensional objects. To represent its position, each game object will have an `x` and a `y` coordinate.
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Player movement shaking
Player movement is shaking a bit. I dont remember this happening when I first implemented the class. I removed the more memory comsuming bits of my game, and it still does it so I think it has ...
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Can i place a image as a map and then code a grid over the top of it?
what i'm trying to do is make a huge map, best way i found is just make a big map and save it as a image... can i code a grid over the top so i can implement tile based movement for my character? ...
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Making a 2d tile based world/map
I've been trying to develop a very basic 2d tile based game for self experience..
Googled and looked at hundreds upon hundreds of tutorials on 'tile based maps'
Almost every tutorial i see is ...
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Projecting world coordinates to screen coordinates issue - points disappear when origin not in view
I am trying to implement a 2d line drawing effect on a 3d mesh using Ogre. In order to do so, I perform silhouette detection on the lines of the object (this works) and then project these lines from ...
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2D Terra(ria)in generation - Accidental noise
I'm currently trying to implement terrain generation as described on the following page:
http://accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/minecraftworlds.html.
But I have issues understanding how to interpret ...
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What knowledge do I need to make a soccer match simulation engine? [closed]
I want to simulate a soccer match, like the Football Manager game, it should be in 2d, showing players and the ball. The players should act for themselves, of course following soccer rules. The ...
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1answer
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How to render polygons of arbitrary shape? [duplicate]
I am trying to render a plane with nodes.
FYI : Nodes know what other nodes it is being attached to.
I can think of a way to render them as long as they are aligned in a circular pattern; have a ...
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How to create a similar 2.5D art style character
EDIT: I am asking about the characters not the 2.5 scene
I am the graphic designer of a game and I want to recreate the look and feel of these images:
My questions are:
Does this style have a ...
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Collision detection-too fast [closed]
I've looked through a few other answers and it seems like I'm doing a dynamic timestep update and I'm checking about 10 pixels before the rectangle to see if it would intersect.
However, the updating ...
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1answer
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Dynamic graphical elements in a 2D game [closed]
I'm an mobile and web developer. I got interested in game development couple of weeks ago and I'm really looking forward to work on a mobile game.
I will be doing everything including the game design ...
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research/investigation problems in 2d games [closed]
To reach master of engineering level in my college you have to choose thread with research/investigation programming problem. I would like to connect it to write a 2d game engine (maybe android I am ...
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Formula throwing a ball to destination [duplicate]
I am throwing a ball using this:
double v, vx, vy, alpha, t2 = 0;
if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.Up))
{
alpha = MathHelper.ToRadians(60f);
v = ...
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Android Dynamic 2D Map
My problem is, I want to create a 2D tiled map. Yes, I know it's been asked a lot. I've seen answers that propose the use of tiled however it only allows (or so it seems to me) to generate static maps ...
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1answer
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How to handle zooming? (Collision detection and speed are off)
I'm working on a bird's eye view 2D game. I want to zoom in/out based on the entity's speed (similar to GTA 1/2), but I'm struggling with the zooming.
To zoom, I simply scale all the entities by the ...
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How to best implement scrolling in a 2D game? [duplicate]
I'm a bit confused as to how to best implement scrolling in a 2D game. I've implemented it before, but I was never quite happy with how I separated the concerns.
My starting point this time is ...
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How to ray cast 2D light in a block-based game
I want to use 2D lighting that can be blocked by in-game objects. My game is block-based and has a view from the top of the flat world. Now lets say I have a 10x10 world and I place a light at 1x1 and ...
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2d terrain workflow
I am new to 2d art and I had a question about the ground part of a level. What does the workflow look like for a 2d game like Dust: An Elysian Tale or Shank 1-2? I want to do that kind of ground where ...
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How to handle scripted events in a 2d java game?
I'm in the planning phases of a 2D java game. The game is a tile-based platformer with some action-y parts to it, like a Metroidvania formula game.
The static portion of each stage is expressed as an ...
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Move from point a, to point b, and determine the accuracy
Let's say I have a circle at point a (0,0), and I wish to move it to point b (23,58), whatever, how can I accurately do this with a speed variation if I wanted. (I'm doing this in javascript).
Every ...
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1answer
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Creating big scene and little size chasing camera
I would like to create a climb based game, so I need to have a big scene and a camera that cover only a little part of it and chase my player. This image explains easier what I want:
How can I do ...
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2D Game Engines [closed]
I'm a computer science student and I recent completed a module based on the development of 2D and 3D games.
I want to develop a 2D game in java as a personal project, the library we worked with ...
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Good Book or Resource for 2D Game Art [closed]
I have a very clear idea for my first Game . I have immense Experience in Coding Games in LibGDX but i am very poor at game art . So far I've been hating all the characters I've drawn . Are there any ...
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1answer
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Need a Push in the right Direction [closed]
I know this been asked a millions of time.
First off my Dabbled in a few languages,like Java,C#,Android,Python and unity even though that's not really a language.My Programming is Level as at far ...
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1answer
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How to make a game tick method?
I've seen in some other simply 2D games that a tick method is used to sync game logic and graphics rendering. My main reason for using this is due to my collision detection malfunctioning, since the ...
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Looking for feedback on code architecture [closed]
I am looking for some feedback on the code architecture / style of the 2D libgdx game some friends and I made over the weekend.
The game is a mix between billiard and soccer (therefore the name ...
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Generating a physics body for 2D Worms-like Terrain
I wrote a processing sketch that generates hills for a scorched earth clone, like this:
I'm trying to figure out how to make this a physics object in libgdx, but I'm having problems figuring out ...
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Recommended graphic software for creating great graphics in game? [closed]
I came across a game called Trine2. It has a great graphics here is one image i captured here. Forgive me but I need 10 reputation to upload image so i use external sites.
How did they create that ...
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how can we define dynamic Path of ViewObject(Bitmap) On Canvas
I am Currently working on One 2D Android Game,
In this game One ViewObject(Bitmap) is moving Across Screen On Parabola Path Like in this Image, But this Path is Static, the Static path is getting ...
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Decaying velocity for simple ball physics [duplicate]
I am writing a little experimental 2D program in Java to understand the basics of physics in games. I read this article on game physics to get me started and want to implement the simple Euler method ...
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1answer
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Colliding a player and a maze wall [closed]
I am making a game very similar to Tank Trouble. I cannot get t the tank to collide with the maze in the map.
Let tx and ty = the tank x and y value.
Let x and y = the walls x and y value.
Let h and ...
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1answer
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2D Platform character getting “unaligned” with the map
I'm trying to make a 2D Platform game and so far I can have my character moving around in a tiled map and collisions are working too. So far so good.
The problem I'm having is that the character can ...
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1answer
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Combining 2D and 3D in game engine
I've implemented basic 3D functionality and made little "2.5D" demo in orthographic projection using OpenGL ES 2 and Box2D.
Now I want to make completely two-dimensional game (using sprites) and ...
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scale rotating boundingbox
I want to use basic rectangular collision detection. I have a rotating sprite and a method that calculates the bounding box every time in the Update() method. I simply check for intersection between ...
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2.5d with box2d - approaches from the top and bottom
So, I'm using box2d for my 2.5d game (think double dragon, tmnt arcade, castle crashers) where you can move around on the z-axis (faked as y-axis movement). Basically, I have box2d only doing ...
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1answer
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What is the standard technique for shifting the frames of a sprite according to user input?
From my own experience, I developed two techniques for changing the sprites of a character that's reacting to user input -- this in the context of a classic 2D platformer.
The first one is to store ...
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1answer
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How can I implement infinite scrolling by scrolling the background's texture, not the quad? [duplicate]
I'm writing a 2D platformer game on Java with LWJGL. I'm doing this just for the sake of learning and not the result itself, so when I decided to implement scrolling I did it two ways I could invent ...
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How to smoothly rotate a vector in a direction?
I'm looking for an easy way to achieve the following:
Object A, B
{
Vector2D position;
Vector2D orientation;
}
update(elapsed)
{
//rotate A's orientation in B's direction by x * elapsed ...
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1answer
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Dynamically editing a movieclip at runtime
I am trying to make a flash game(actionScript-3 if it matters) to test what I learned so far. And, in the game, I want to make the character(a robot?) customizable. The first solution I found was to ...
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Building a tessellated texture
In games like Minecraft the textures such as grass when lined up side-by-side it looks like one big perfect texture. When I make a texture it's never even and you can see the different blocks. How do ...
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1answer
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2d coordinates vs x/y screen positioning
I have a 2d top-down view tile map game, that generates random color tiles (water colors) as you move the character. I've been positioning elements on screen using the x/y coords (finding a way to ...
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1answer
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Player getting caught on floor
My player is getting caught on something on the floor. My whole environment is just blocks. I have looked through (and tried to change) just about everything I can think of in my player update method. ...
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Modeling objects coming down from a networked pipe on the client?
I've got an entity base class that contains information about a particular object that both the server and client know about, they're in a shared DLL. It's just a basic outline of entity information ...
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What's the idea on the base of rendering camera on 2D platformers games? [closed]
I'm programming a 2D platformer game, and I am wondering about how the right to left scrolling of the camera is done in a game like this.
There is a background that need to be updated. There are also ...
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2answers
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Converting hexagon grid coordinate system
As I have been building on a RTS game based on hexagon grid built in javascript. I stumbled across a problem regarding the coordinate system. Have been trying to implement a A-star system to find ...
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2answers
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2D Graphics in CMD in C#
So, almost every programmer used Doom as inspiration for new Projects, right? So Doom and other classic MS-DOS game were played on something like Command Prompt. How do you display images in Command ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: 2D game rendering, no performance gain with glDraw call batching
I just did a small benchmark. To my surprise batching sprites into a single draw call doesn't give any significant performance boost. Following are my results:
Hardware: iPod touch 4
Extra info: ...
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How to Fix Choppy Movement [closed]
I've just started game programming yesterday, reading things here and there on the internet, and I've been testing the java 2D API.
The code below does basically what I want it to (move the red ...
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How would you program sprite movement in a 2-D ariel view rpg game? [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to programming and I have recently programmed an RPG game in java.
Any tips on character movement with animations? I would like it to be similar to those of other rpg games such as ...
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How can I draw a small bitmap on a larger bitmap at a particular position? (Canvas / SurfaceView)
I'm building a game that requires additive blending of colours for certain bitmaps.
Say I have 4 different types object, there are maybe ten of each type on the screen with each type having a ...
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1answer
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SDL text or additional images not loading
I've got a basic side scroller that allows the user to run and jump around. I've used various tutorials to get this far, but I can't seem to get any text to render, no matter what method. I also can't ...
