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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Drag and Drop in Construct2
I am new to game development just now begin to make some games with Construct-2. And I tried to make drag and drop function like Plant vs Zombies, Empire vs orcs....
Here is my sample file.
If I ...
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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 ...
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How to handle a player's level and its consequent privileges?
I'm building a game similar to Mafia Wars where a player can do tasks for his gang and gain experience and thus advancing his level.
The game is built using PHP and a Mysql database.
In the game I ...
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How Do Game Timers Work?
I don't understand the whole game timer things, I know XNA comes with one but im realying on VSync to do the work rather then a game timer. I know what they are It's just can someone show me of a ...
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Game mechanic for a battle between 2 monsters
I'm building a flash game where you have a collection of creatures. It's basically a petting game at the moment, I'd like to know what kind of mechanics I could use to battle them efficiently. I'd ...
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Letting the user draw a Polygon Body and Image
In my game, I want to provide the user with a drawing feature.
By free hand drawing, the user creates a polygon shape. Then, in my game implementation, I have to create a body for the found vertices ...
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Game Resource Generation
I am currently building a game that has a "City" entity. These cities generate and consume resources such as food variably over a period of time. I need to be able query the server often to find ...
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Steering behaviour
So I found this steering behaviour code in a book but i dont really understand the last part of the code what exactly is he doing because im unfamiliar with c++. Why would you need 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 ...
