A form of directional input consisting of a stick that pivots from a fixed position. May or may not have buttons on top or on its base.

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Knob in DigitalOnScreenControl not moving. Why?

I have set up a DigitalOnScreenControl in my game but the knob does not move. The base and the knob are drawn on the screen but the latter doesn't move as per the AndEngine example here. Here is a ...
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Joystick example problem for android 2D

I've searched all over the web for an answer to this, and there are simular topics but nothing works for me, and I have no Idea why. I just want to move my sprite using a joystick, since I'm useless ...
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Using two joysticks in Cocos2D

Here is what I am trying to do: With the left joystick the player can steer the figure and with the right joystick it can attack. Problem is that the left joystick seems to get all the input, the ...
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Cocos2D: Change animation based on joystick direction

I'm trying to get my figure to look in the right directions, based on the input of the joystick. So if I tilt left it looks left and the left animation is used, if I used right, it looks right and ...
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Detecting extremely fast joystick button presses?

Is it usually possible for the player to press and release a button within a single frame, so that the game engine doesn't have time to detect it? How do programmers usually handle this situation? ...
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objective-c iphone sdk dragging between a boundary box

I was thinking of make a slider/joystick but not in a circle but in a line. So I made the image drag able only over the X axis and when it gets to the point where the slider stops i did this : ...
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How do I get consistent Xbox360 Controller input across Linux, Mac, and Windows?

I'm developing a browser plugin to provide joystick access to all browsers on all platforms. The issue that I'm running into is that OS X doesn't seem to provide Xbox 360 joystick input without ...
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Virtual Joystick for Windows Phone 7 (XNA)

In the iOS space, there's a great library based on Cocos2D called SneakyInput to create a virtual Joystick on screen. I was just wondering if there's a (preferably free) library like that for XNA? If ...
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How standardized are joystick / gamepad configurations?

Right now I'm working on input for my game. The only controller I own is an XBOX 360 one. From what I can see, if a controller's stick has a Z axis, these are actually triggers. Essentially I'm ...
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Help implementing virtual d-pad

Short Version: I am trying to move a player around on a tilemap, keeping it centered on its tile, while smoothly controlling it with SneakyInput virtual Joystick. My movement is jumpy and hard to ...
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Linux: find force feedback device for joystick device

Because SDL 1.3 is still a long way coming I implemented native force feedback (rumble) support for Aquaria: https://bitbucket.org/panzi/aquaria/ However, I could not find a way to find the according ...
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C++ Game Library for SVG Based Game

I'm looking into building a cross-platform opensource 2D RPG style game engine for ChaiScript. I want to be able to do all of the graphics with SVG and need joystick input. I also need the libraries ...
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rotate player based off of joystick

Hey everyone I have this game that i am making in android and I have a touch screen joystick that moves the player around based on the joysticks position. I cant figure out how to also get the player ...
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Restricting joystick within a radius of center

I'm using Unity3d iOs and am using the example joysticks that came with one of the packages. It works fine but the area the joystick moves in is a rectangle which is unintuitive for my type of game. I ...