A set of rules that govern an in-game experience. Game design is an effort to come up with game mechanics that allow for players to have a fun and engaging experience.
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What's a way to implement a flexible buff/debuff system?
Overview:
Lots of games which RPG-like statistics allow for character "buffs", ranging from simple "Deal 25% extra damage" to more complicated things like "Deal 15 damage back to attackers when hit."
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How to develop RPG Damage Formulas?
I'm developing a classical 2d RPG (in a similar vein to final fantasy) and I was wondering if anyone had some advice on how to do damage formulas/links to resources/examples? I'll explain my current ...
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Interaction between engine parts
I want to ask a question about how the information exchange between game engine parts should be implemented.
The engine is separated in four parts: logic, data, UI, graphics.
In the beginning I made ...
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1answer
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Programming a climbing system like tomb raider
I was wondering if anyone knew or had knowledge of how to program a climbing system like the one found in tomb raider/uncharted.
I had thought of just having bounding boxes at all the climbable ...
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Moving from A(x,y) to B(x1,y1) with constant speed?
I currently have something like:
float deltaX = point0.getX() - point1.getX();
float deltaY = point0.getY() - point1.getY();
And every 0.01 seconds I refresh my objects position like this:
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How does pathfinding in RTS games work?
[crossposted from stackoverflow]
In a game such as Warcraft 3 or Age of Empires, the ways that an AI opponent can move about the map seem almost limitless. The maps are huge and the position of other ...
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“The Game Object” - and component-based design
I've been working on some hobby projects the last 3-4 years. Just simple 2d and 3d games. But lately I have started a bigger project. Soo in the last couple of months I've been trying to design a game ...
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Programming the combat sequence in a role playing game
I'm trying to write a short "game" where a player goes around and fights monsters but I have no idea how to handle the combat.
For example, say I have a "Warrior" and a "Troll". How do the two fight ...
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What do you use to support multiplayer turn-based network game for iOS and Android games?
If I'm doing a turn-based card game, what kind of technique do you use to support multiplayer gameplay over Internet?
Is it socket? If it's socket, which SDK (CoronaSDK etc.) can provide solid ...
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2answers
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Designing AI in a 1 on 1 battle similar to Pokemon
I am designing a game where the battle system is similar to Pokemon. That is, a 1 on 1 battle with only a few (4-6) moves to choose from. As the game is taking shape, I'm starting to think about some ...
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How To Approach 360 Degree Snake
I've recently gotten into XNA and must say I love it. As sort of a hello world game I decided to create the classic game "Snake". The 90 degree version was very simple and easy to implement. But as I ...
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What makes a computer opponent feel alive?
Are there any recommended blogs or whitepapers that talk about making the AI in an RPG game feel more real? (Specifically in turn based combat.)
I know something must be out there, but I am only ...
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A list of game mechanics
I'm trying to compile a list of game mechanics, by which I mean high-level/meta game mechanics like Cooperation, Resource Management, Chance and Time Manipulation rather than low level mechanics like ...
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Are there many games involving the manipulation of water?
I'm in the very, very early brainstorming stages of a game which centers around the manipulation of water and the terrain around it. (i.e., changing the water's state between solid, liquid, gas; ...
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In-Game Tutorial Decisions
I'm working on a game with confusing mechanics such as energy storage and the coolant temperature. What is the best way to get a new player learned quickly? What are the pros and cons of different ...
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Best strategy (tried and tested) for using Box2D in a real-time multiplayer game?
I am currently tackling real-time multiplayer physics updates for a game engine I am writing. My question is how best to use Box2D for networked physics. If I run the simulation on the server, should ...
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5answers
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Game actions that take multiple frames to complete
I've never really done much game programming before, pretty straightforward question.
Imagine I'm building a Tetris game, with the main loop looking something like this.
for every frame
handle ...
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How do I ensure an appropriate payout ratio for a slot machine?
I have done a lot of research into random number generators for slot machines, reel stop calculations and how to physically give the user a good chance on winning.
What I can't figure out is how to ...
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4answers
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Logic behind a bejeweled-like game
In a prototype I am doing, there is a minigame similar to bejeweled. Using a grid that is a 2d array (int[,]) how can I go about know when the user formed a match? I only care about horizontally and ...
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3answers
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Building an instance system
I am looking into how to design an instance system for the game I am working on.
I have always wondered how these are created in games like World of Warcraft, with its instances (dungeons/raids/etc). ...
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1answer
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Which all are the best Android 2D Java based gaming libraries / frameworks? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any 2D gaming libraries/frameworks/engines for Android?
Which all are the best and top using open source java 2D Gaming libraries for Android?I had already ...
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5answers
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Collision detection logic
Edit 2
In the following picture sprite1 (the red square) is hitting the platform from the left, so:
sprite1_rightEdge>platformSprite leftEdge
would be true, so I can simply reposition ...
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3answers
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What are the different ways to balance an online multiplayer game where user spend different amounts of time online?
Let's consider a game where every player is building his own medieval town. To make this question simple, let's assume that, on this persistent world, some people will play an hour every day (heavy ...
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4answers
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Are there any good html 5 mmo design tutorials?
Hey all. I got a rather inspired after playing gaia online's zOMG and wanted to revive an old project idea I've had laying around for a few years now.
I'm looking to work with html5 (ie canvas, svg ...
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2answers
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Bubble shooter search alghoritm
So I have a Matrix of NxM. At a given position (for ex. [2][5]) I have a value which represents a color. If there is nothing at that point the value is -1. What I need to do is after I add a new ...
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1answer
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Move Sprite from A(x,y) to B(x1,y1);
I have a sprite with an UpdateHandler that can change it's position every 0.1 seconds.
My Question is , given the Sprites current position, how can I move it to another position(like from 10,10 to ...
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1answer
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Handling game states like Braid's timeshift or Shooter's Killcam
me as very unexperienced game developer, I wondered how I could achieve something like re-winding the time in my game or jump back to a special moment (killcam) and replay it for the user.
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1answer
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Spaceship interiors: How to approach, implementation-wise?
I'm creating a 3D space game using Ogre3D for graphics with C++ and one of the features is to be able to freely wander around spaceship interiors, but I am lost with how to implement it. Here is what ...
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votes
1answer
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How can I spawn monsters at random locations?
I made a little 2D shooter game for my iPhone. I want monsters to spawn at random locations.
But I don't have any clue where to start to make them spawn.
I already made the monster image and ...
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vote
2answers
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How do i calc what side the ball is of the rect?
I have this nice drawing:
http://bildr.no/view/1085283
I know the ball's center and the rectangle's center, but how do I know (programming C#) what side of the rectangle the ball is?
By my drawing, ...
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votes
1answer
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Populating Sprites
I am making a android game, it's a tower/base defense like type of game (yea I know it is kind of confusing), I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to have the attacking sprites randomly generate ...
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2answers
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How do I limit the game loop?
How do I make a game update at a consistent speed? For example, this would loop too fast:
while(true)
{
GetInput();
Render();
}
This just wont work ...
