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How to define areas filled with water?

I would like to enhance my little game engine with nice looking water simulation. To start working on that I need to find a proper way to represent water in the game. Unfortunately I don't know much ...
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What data structure should I use for a 3D platformer game?

I am developing a platformer game with XNA framework like Metroid but in 3D. Now I have to draw models and I have the question of the title. I read many post and I know that the main data structures ...
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Design patterns for effects between actors and technology

I'm working on my first game, and taking the opportunity to brush up my C++ (I want to make as much of it as portable as I can.) Whilst working on the technology tree and how it affects actors ...
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Isometric game data structure and rendering

I'm starting development of a 2d isometric(tiled, roguelike) game and i'm brainstorming wich kind of data structure i would use to store runtime data like tiles and entities, but i don't want to use ...
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Is using a half-edge mesh structure feasible?

Is it feasible to use half-edge mesh in games instead of vertex-face structure? What comes to my mind is that it could be useful in mesh simplification (dynamic level of detail). But I'm worried it ...
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In a 2D tile-based game, how should NPCs and tiles reference each other?

I'm making a tile engine for 2D games (seen from the top). Basically the world is composed of a grid of tiles. Now I want to put for instance NPCs that can move on the map. What do you think is ...