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Road / river generation on 2d grid map
This is a newbie question, but here it goes:
My map is a 2d grid, and I want to generate roads and rivers. The route from the starting to ending point must not be the optimal route in number of ...
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Procedural world generation oriented on gameplay features
In large procedural landscape games, the land seems dull, but that's probably because the real world is largely dull, with only limited places where the scenery is dramatic or tactical.
Looking at ...
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How to create a reasonably sized urban area manually but efficiently
I have a game concept that only really works in an urban area that is of reasonable scale and diversity. In terms of what it should look like, think GTA, in terms of the size think more like a small ...
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What's the best way to generate an NPC's face using web technologies?
I'm in the process of creating a web app. I have many randomly-generated non-player characters in a database. I can pull a lot of information about them - their height, weight, down to eye color, hair ...
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How is the terrain generated in Commandos and Commandos game clones/look-alikes?
The Commandos series of games and its similar western counterpart, Desperados, use a mix of 2D and 3D elements to achieve a very pleasing and immersive atmosphere. Apart from the concept that alone ...
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Finding inspiration / help for making up (weapon) names
I'm really bad with words, especially with English words. Currently I'm struggling to make a good weapon names for my game, it needs to display the weapon functionality (weak/strong/fast/ballistic ...
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Can I run into legal issues with random names?
I'm currently building a game whose NPC's are going to be assigned a random gender and a random name for the right gender. To do this I will be using a "database" of names (actually a text file with ...
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3d modeling based on genetic techniques
I'd like to generate models based on genetic techniques. All information about the model would be stored as genes in the DNA file. The models to be created are creatures, like humans or animals.
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Creating a basic character skeleton from code
I'd like to have a procedural system that uses a string of data to create a 3d creature. The way I've thought to do this is to use the code to generate a simple creature skeleton (I'll get to the skin ...
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Are mobile devices a viable platform/market for “User-Generated Content”-based games?
I intend to do a lot of research into this, but I know this community has a knack for delivering hard-to-find gems of knowledge, so I figured I'd ask here first.
Preamble (My Situation)
I'm ...
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Going from using XMLSerializer to using the XNA Content Pipeline
A well known limitation of using the XNA Content Pipeline is that it is not included in the XNA redistributable. So, if you want to create an editor for your game, the designer must download the whole ...
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How to generate a torus mesh
I'm trying to generate vertices and indices for a torus programmatically. I found this piece of code somewhere, and it looks like it works, but I'm not 100% sure it is correct.
With my little ...
