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Efficient Algorithm for Recording gameplay's objects positions

So, I have a game idea in mind, and for that I need to record the game around the player. I'me not talking about recording it as video, but rather recording the scene objects, and their positions ...
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How to track many in-game statistics

I am looking to track many in-game events, e.g. the score of each move, how many moves are taken, what types of moves, etc. A lot of stats can simply be tracked with a counter. In some cases I need to ...
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Is component-based design an architectural pattern or design pattern?

When using the component-based paradigm in game development with engines like Unity, is component-based design an architectural pattern, or a design pattern? Can I even say that component-based ...
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OOP implementation of BUFFS and Stats. Suggestion

I am developing an MMORPG server using NodeJS. I am not sure how to implement Buffs, i mean, equipped objects or used skills have effects on the Player() which has many Stats(), some of them have a ...
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Collision Detection Game Design and Architecture

I've reading some articles about collision detection. My question here is about ideas on the design for it. Baically I have a C++ game that has a main loop with entities with an update method. Based ...
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How can I cleanly and elegantly handle data and dependancies between classes

I'm working on 2d topdown game in SFML 2, and need to find an elegant way in which everything will work and fit together. Allow me to explain. I have a number of classes that inherit from an abstract ...
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How to manage my model

I have in my model, a list of Classes : Player, NonPlayerCharacter, Monster, Item, NonMovableItem etc With AndEngine I've a list of sprite for each piece of my model, How can I manage the ...
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How can I refactor my code to use fewer singletons?

I started a component based, networked game (so far only working on the server). I know why singletons can be bad, but I can't think of another way to implement the same thing. So far I have: A ...
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Where to implement storable items

I'm creating a multiplayer online trading game. The things that are traded range from raw items to complex products. For example Steel is a raw item. Mechanical Assembly is a more complex item that ...
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knowing all available entity types

I'm making a game where at some point the game will create enemies of random types. Each type of enemy available is defined on its own class derived from an enemy superclass. To do this, obviously the ...
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Should components have sub-components in a component-based system like Artemis?

I am designing a game using Artemis, although this is more of philosophical question about component-based design in general. Let's say I have non-primitive data which applies to a given component (a ...
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How to model / where to store relational data between classes

I'm trying to figure out the best design here, and I can see multiple approaches, but none that seems "right." There are three relevant classes here: Base, TradingPost, and Resource. Each Base has a ...
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Architectural approaches to creating a game menu/shell overlay on PC/Linux?

I'm am working on a collection of games for a custom digital tabletop installation (similar to Microsoft Surface tables). Each game will be an individual executable that runs full-screen. In addition, ...
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References about Game Engine Architecture in AAA Games

Last weeks I focused on game engine architecture and learned a lot about different approaches like component based, data driven, and so on. I used them in test applications and understand their ...
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Snake Game Help

I am making a snake game and learning XNA at the same time. I have 3 classes : Game.cs, Snake.cs and Apple.cs My problem is more of a conceptual problem, I want to know which class is really ...
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Use a SQL Database for a Desktop Game

Developing a Game Engine I am planning a computer game and its engine. There will be a 3 dimensional world with first person view and it will be single player for now. The programming language is C++ ...
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How can I use multiple meshes per entity without breaking one component of a single type per entity?

We are just switching from a hierarchy based game engine to a component based game engine. My problem is that when I load a model which has has a hierarchy of meshes and the way I understand is that a ...
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Should Vector3 inherit from Vector2?

I'm creating a couple of classes Vector2 (X & Y) and Vector3 (X, Y & Z), but I don't know whether to make Vector3 inherit from Vector2, or whether to re-implement the member variables m_x and ...
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Debugging-Setting Consoles in Games

Right now I have the graphical and input portions of a console for my game (command parsing hasn't been implemented yet). I was wondering how you would go about making changes to properties in game ...
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Game Messaging System Design

I'm making a simple game, and have decided to try to implement a messaging system. The system basically looks like this: Entity generates message -> message is posted to global message queue -> ...
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Music Rhythm Game Difficulty Question

I have curious question about music rhythm based genre while I'm making a code for the game. Is it really better if I set a random pattern encountered on every music played or there is a specific ...
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Dynamic Components

I am attempting to design a component-based architecture that allows Components to be dynamically enabled and disabled, much like the system employed by Unity3D. For example, all Components are ...
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Pros and cons of using dlls

I wonder about create every game engine module (render, input, sound, etc...) into dlls (renderer.dll, input.dll, etc...). What are pros and cons in your opinion of divide game into set of dlls ? I ...
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Is 2 lines of push/pop code for each pre-draw-state too many?

I'm trying to simplify vector graphics management in XNA; currently by incorporating state preservation. 2X lines of push/pop code for X states feels like too many, and it just feels wrong to have 2 ...
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How does one save a procedural world?

I have recently read about how to create procedural worlds... but how do I save one? In games like Terraria or Minecraft users can freely modify the landscape, but that world can't be recreated from ...
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C++ Game Engine Book/Tutorial/Anything recent? [closed]

Before I get flamed, please understand that I have been looking for a while now. Yes, I have found a good amount of game engine tutorials...except filled with errors, out of date syntax, missing ...
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Entity System and rendering

Okey, what I know so far; The entity contains a component(data-storage) which holds information like; - Texture/sprite - Shader - etc And then I have a renderer system which draws all this. But ...
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Managing different utility classes between engine and libraries

I'm currently in updating some engine code (which does not work, so it is more like creating a engine). I've decided to swap over to SFML (instead of my own crappy renderer, window manager, and ...
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2D scene graph not transforming relative to parent

I am currently in the process of coding my own 2D Scene graph, which is basically a port of flash's render engine. The problem I have right now is my rendering doesn't seem to be working properly. ...
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Programming Paradigm for Games [closed]

Which programming paradigm resembles or best suits the Game design or game engine programming? by paradigm I mean the Imperative, Object oriented, Functional, etc. I came to know that functional ...
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Designing a “Grid” like object that contains game objects

I am working on a 2D game, where there's a game "board" on which other game objects are placed. This this is 2D, my starting point was to design a class that will internally use a 2d array for the ...
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Best practice for designing a risk-style board game

I'm just trying to figure out how to set up the code for a game like risk... I would like it to be extensible, so that I can have multiple maps (ie- World, North America, Eurasia, Africa) so ...
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Techniques for separating game model from presentation

I am creating a simple 2D game using XNA. The elements that make up the game world are what i refer to as the "model". For instance, in a board game, i would have a GameBoard class that stores ...
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How to code UI / HUD in Entity System?

I think I already got the idea of the Entity System inspired by Adam Martin (t-machine). I want to start using this for my next project. I already know the basic of Entity, Components, and Systems. ...
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Adding sub-entities to existing entities. Should it be done in the Entity and Component classes?

I'm in a situation where a player can be given the control of small parts of an entity (i.e. Left missile battery). Therefore I started implementing sub entities as follow. Entities are Objects with ...
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SDL - Getting a single keypress event instead of a keystate?

Right now I'm working on a simple SDL project, but I've hit an issue when trying to get a single keypress event to skip past a splash screen. Right now, there are 4 start-up splash screens that I ...
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What technologies are used for Game development now days? [closed]

Whenever I ask a question about game development in an online forum I always get suggestions like learning line drawing algorithms, bit level image manipulation and video decompression etc. However ...
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Entity System with C++

I'm working on a game engine using the Entity System and I have some questions. How I see Entity System : Components : A class with attributs, set and get. Sprite Physicbody SpaceShip ... System ...
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Using MVC with a retained mode renderer

I am using a retained mode renderer similar to the display lists in Flash. In other words, I have a scene graph data structure called the Stage to which I add the graphical primitives I would like to ...
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Low-level game engine renderer design

I'm piecing together the beginnings of an extremely basic engine which will let me draw arbitrary objects (SceneObject). I've got to the point where I'm creating a few sensible sounding classes, but ...
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Sharing VBO with multiple objects and fixed size buffer data

I'm just messing around with OpenGL and getting some basic structures in place and my first attempt resulted in each SceneObject class (just contains vertex information right now) having it's own VBO ...
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The reasons behind Unity3D engine design (game object/transform component)

I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind Unity3D engine design and this is something I can't get my head around yet: why is transform data stored in a separate component, instead of being a part ...
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Adjusting server-side tickrate dynamically

I know nothing of game development/this site, so I apologise if this is completely foobar. Today I experimented with building a small game loop for a network game (think MW3, CSGO etc). I was ...
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Component-based design: handling objects interaction

I'm not sure how exactly objects do things to other objects in a component based design. Say I have an Obj class. I do: Obj obj; obj.add(new Position()); obj.add(new Physics()); How could I then ...
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How to make smooth animations

Say I want to write a card game. I have a hand of cards and I want to be able to draw a smooth animation of a card moving from the hand to the table. I am looking for suggestions on how to elegantly ...
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Java applet game design no keyboard focus

THIS IS PROBABLY THE WRONG PLACE. POSTED ITHERE (STACKOVERFLOW) I'm making an applet game and it is rendering, the game loop is running, the animations are updating, but the keyboard input is not ...
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Why has the industry switched from C to C++?

First of all i would like to have a real answer, i'm always trying to get more from various sources and articles, and when I read things like C++ is slow because it has virtual functions and because ...
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Should I use reference counting on entities in component-based entity system?

In component-based entity system, should game objects be reference counted? What about components? Tell me please your pro and contra. Thanks in advance
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Saving/loading code structure

I have a tree of game entities composed of components. I want to save/load everything to xml file, where my saving/loading code must be located: Scene class containing root node and functions ...
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Managing the user input

I'm studying a good number of articles about this topic and seems to me that there is just one way to do this: a signal/slot design. I was also looking at some more complex async examples but I don't ...

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