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How to create a hexagon world map in PHP from a database for a browser based strategy game

I'm trying to create a hexagon world map for my PHP browser based strategy game. I've created a table in my database with the following data per row: id, type, x, y and occupied. Where type is the ...
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Complex Game AI for Turn-based Strategy Games

I'm doing some research for a turn-based Strategy game project and looking for good resources on this topic. The game is a typical war game where countries can fight each other, deploy units and have ...
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How should I check if a player has completed an achievement?

I'm making an MMO game and I just got to a point where I need to implement achievements... How do I do that? The most straight forward thing to do would be to run this once every 100ms,: for a in ...
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Get world coordinate under mouse (at a ground plane for Warcraft 3 like movement)

I want to let a unit follow the mouse like in any RTS (Warcraft 3, Starcraft, ...). For that I have a "ground plane" which is defined through 2 vectors, the X and Z axis. Now I need to get the world ...
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Turn-based Strategy Loop

I'm working on a strategy game. It's turn-based and card-based (think Dominion-style), done in a client, with eventual AI in the works. I've already implemented almost all of the game logic (methods ...