Engine-design related questions. How code is structured.
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Export matrices or IPOs?
I'm currently working on an exporter for Blender and corresponding importer for my engine, but I believe the same concepts apply to any other 3D animation software.
When it comes to export animation ...
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When to use GameComponents?
I know what it is and I'm using it as a frame counter for example. But when should I use it?
Does it make sense to say "I make all the input handling happen in a gamecomponent"? Is it flexible enough ...
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Where to put common System functionality in Entity-System Design?
I am working on an Entity System design based largely off of Adam Martin's design and Ray Wenderlich's Objective-C Implementation.
I am working on the AI system using a state machine with a System ...
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How to make a “GUI In Game”?
My game is very GUI based, the way how it works is that I have a GUI class, which contains the basic GUI elements, a parent GUI object, and a copy of the main game's class object. The game starts out ...
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Events with Entity Component Systems [duplicate]
I'm currently working on an HTML5 top-down simple RPG game, and as a learning experience I'm building my own little engine from scratch. After reading around a little I decided to go with the Entity ...
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Using a programmable pipeline in a game engine
As a learning experience, I'm developing my own 3D game engine using OpenGL. I'm a little confused as to how to implement my rendering engine such that it uses a programmable pipeline while still ...
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Open source pet / toy games or suggestions for semi-early learners that can help establish solid patterns? [closed]
I have two sons (around 13) who are wanting to develop a simple game that is very pet centric as a "first foray" into building games. I suggested something like that as it is fairly simple and ...
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What's the most efficient way to merge two arrays of game sprite objects? [closed]
I've been thinking of using LinkedLists and its list1.addAll(list2); method, but a post on this thread suggests that it's a bad idea and I'd be better off just merging two arrays.
What is the best ...
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Need advice on handling instances of new game
I am working on my first game in c#. It it a text-based game using Windows Forms. I was brainstorming on the best way to manage all of the data and thought about containing all of the information ...
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Do you actually use diagrams to model games?
I mean mostly UML but any method that works is viable. So - do you actually model your games with UML/other diagrams or different methods? I had a subject at my university about modelling with UML and ...
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Design issue: World class only contains Rigidbodies but custom objects need further updating
BACKGROUND:
My World class that is responsible for updating the physics for each object in the game contains a std::vector of Rigidbody classes.
As Rigidbodies are added to the world, they are also ...
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How do real-time games like starcraft 2 and league of legends transmit and broadcast data during play? [closed]
How do real-time games like starcraft 2 and league of legends transmit and broadcast data during play?
Is all real-time data transmitted to and from the server in udp packets?
Do users directly ...
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Different kinds of movement in component based entity system
I am writing a pong clone with a component based entity system.
But I am having trouble with the different kinds of movement in the game.
The problem is the following: My paddles will just move up ...
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Separate classes communication
Lets say I have a key and door. My third class (player) needs to pick up a key and open the doors. How should those objects communicate without making too much dependencies between them?
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Tilemap collision in component based entity system
I am trying to set up a collision system for a tilemap in my component based entity system, but having trouble with figuring out how to do so.
Currently I have the following approach:
My tilemap ...
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Correct utilisation of gameloop (Android)
When using a gameloop like (much simplified)............
updateLogic();
render();
How does one perform 'single' operations? I mean, things like triggering sounds (which will only be played once), ...
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How can I update Display settings from an Options screen without restarting?
I'm currently creating a 2D RPG in C++11 with Allegro 5 and boost.
My goal is to somehow update my game settings when an option is changed in the Options Menu. I don't want to force the user to ...
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User interaction and Component based architecture [duplicate]
I'm working at my first game and I've decided to build a simple component based engine.
I found really useful to work in that way but I still miss some fundamentals probably.
Let say that I have a ...
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making different kind of bullets
I have an enemy which shoots 3 different kind of bullets. They are of different sizes, speed, and representation (rectangle, oval, and a more classic bullet).
Should they be 3 separate classes or ...
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Logic in an Object Oriented Architecture [closed]
Good evening.
Recently I've been thinking of making a simple TBS game in Java for fun and I was wondering if my logic is correct.
Basically, I have the following classes:
public abstract class ...
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Game State and Configuration via Events
Often "singletons" are problematic for testing, so with my next game I'm trying my best to avoid them. But there is bunch of data (configuration or game state information) that different parts of my ...
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Manage VBO/VAO in a graphic engine
I'm trying to make a 2D Graphic engine for training me. I've actually made it with immediate draw and I've made the renderer outside (so I can switch between OpenGL and DirectX).
How can I manage ...
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Refactoring Sprites to their own classes OpenGL es 2 [closed]
I was following along with http://www.raywenderlich.com/9776/how-to-create-a-simple-2d-iphone-game-with-opengl-es-2-0-and-glkit-part-2 and I've hit a wall. I can't for the life of me figure how to ...
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Paylines and Pay dots in Slot Game
I'm working on a HTML5 slot game and completely stuck on the pay lines and the dots that produce the lines from 1 end to the other.
Can someone tell me what's the logic behind generating random ...
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Game architecture / design question - building an efficient engine while avoiding global instances (C++ game)
I had a question about game architecture: What is the best way to have different components communicate with each other?
I do really apologize if this question has already been asked a million times, ...
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Resynchronize game state on reconnect
Suppose in a multiplayer first person shooter game that a player loses their connection. On reconnect they need to synchronize with the current game state. But while they are getting a snapshot of the ...
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Component based game engine and dependencies - singletons [closed]
I am thinking about how to create component based game engine.
I understand that all things should be very similar as in Data Oriented Design (each object is a collection of various structures as ...
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Making up everything from single pixels
I recently saw a game which looked a bit like minecraft, but it was a RPG.
The enemies in this game consist completely of voxels and if they die, they collaps and every single voxels falls down, ...
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Syncing entities in a totally shared multiplayer environment
Typically, networked games designate a server (or host player) as being authoritative over all state shared between the players. Clients still simulate their own state, but also continuously ...
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General Sequence of Events for a 2D shooter
I'm having some trouble understanding ways to sequence events in my game. Assume the game is data driven, what is the best way to control the events?
Do I have some sort of EventSequencer that loads ...
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CPU usage, game loop and sleep()
I've read about this topic on numerous discussion sites, but I can't seem to find a clear definitive (up-to-date) answer, and hopefully this will me some more insight:
I've read the excellent game ...
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UML Class Diagrams for 2D platformer Games? [closed]
I have to develop a small arcade game in C++ for a college assignment using a 2D Game Engine my teacher coded. What would be the best way to make a UML class diagram for it? It's very basic stuff but ...
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Event-driven vs state synchronizing networking model
I was going through the Tribes network model and the network model used in Quake3. What I understand is that Tribes is more of an event based model where as the Quake model uses game states and delta ...
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Game editor architecture
I'm looking in to developing a game editor - essentially a level editor for my game but a little more advanced i.e edit menus and loading screens and what not.
So far, I have come up with a ...
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How do you parameterize turn based AI?
I would like to create/find an AI algorithm/process that can be parameterized such that a change in the parameters causes a change in the AI behavior. I am specifically looking to apply this to a turn ...
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Packet handling system architecture?
I'm working on a multiplayer Flash game (ActionScript 3) with an accompanying server written in Python and I'd like some tips regarding networking, and specifically, the handling of packets and ...
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Making efficeint voxel engines using “chunks”
Concept
I'm currently looking in to how voxel engines work with a view to possibly making one myself.
I see a lot of stuff like this ...
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Creating Input layouts for different vertex types
I'm still in the planning phase for a hobby abstract renderer, and i'm wondering how i should handle multiple vertex types and different shader inputs. (This is my first graphics project, so cut me ...
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xna creating game stage management contrls
I am under planning stage of my game where I am creating controls for my game. I have create below control for stages but have no idea how this we can achieve in xna.
Please also help me with your ...
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Application design for specific points on image
Hi guys I am starting a simple hobby app in Unity, its a 2D app, which have some alphabets like A,B,C..Z (images) . There ll be specific paths where user touch one by one to complete drawing the ...
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What kinds of 3D objects should a game engine have? [closed]
I know this is a pretty general question. But I've been looking for different kinds of 3D objects and their names to implement in my engine to boost its speed.
Static meshes, dynamic(?) meshes and ...
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Where should I put my mob rendering code?
I'm making a simple LWJGL game. However, I'm a bit confused about rendering. So I have a Mob class and a TriangleMob is a basic enemy.
package daniel.entity.Mob;
public class TriangleMob {
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Not repeating background in platformer [closed]
I need to make not repeating background for platformer. I can't find any description of implementation and I developed algorithm but I'm not sure that it's right.
I can't load one big texture per ...
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Character Movement in 3D games
I'm either not searching correctly or there is really not a lot of material on Character Movement in 3D games.
I'm mostly interested in how people usually implement character movement in games like ...
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EXTREMELY Confused Over “Constant Game Speed Maximum FPS” Game Loop
I recently read this article on Game Loops: http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/
And the recommended last implementation is confusing me deeply. I don't understand how it works, and it ...
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Xna “Game.Run” method appears to be using up a lot of resources in my game, is this normal?
The question really is in the heading, but i have been using the visual studio profiler to optmisie my game, i have noticed that the game.run method is eating through 93.6% of the overall game ...
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Attribute ownership in Entity Component systems
How do you typically handle data ownership in these systems?
Right now I just have a map that maps type(std::string or hashed int)->void* where outside sources can add attributes via a simple ...
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What's the most efficient way to manage auras & buffs? [duplicate]
I would like to know, for a game that does NOT use a grid (1-dimensional movement, in fact); what is the cleanest way to manage buffs that change a unit's variables?
My current system is going to be ...
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Does it make sense to use Lua scripting in a game developed in Python?
Well for C++ written games using Lua scripts for easy changing ai, quets etc is very reasonable and it's common. However now I'm going to write a game in pure python and I don't know if I should use ...
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Powerup Best practices [duplicate]
In a turn based game each player has a set of properties, e.g attack, defence, speed and these can all be used to work out who should go first and how much damage should be dealt. That all works fine, ...
