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What is the cost of distributing through steam?
We are in Pre-alpha stage of a game development project and haven´t yet got reply from Valve about how it works to distribute through Steam. We need this information to do a business model with all ...
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How to blend two cameras when traveling through a portal in Unity3D
Before I get to my question, I know the most obvious solution would be to use the normalized view port rect, however I need more complex shapes than a rectangle, and I've looked in to using the view ...
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What should I keep in mind while developing a game for Steam?
I recently did the programming on a game that was just released and i've decided that for my next project I want to do something a little bigger scale. I plan to develop a game to be sold on Steam, ...
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How does an Engine like Source process entities?
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On the Source engine (and it's antecessor, goldsrc, quake's) the game objects are divided on two types, world and entities. The world is the map geometry and the entities are ...
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How to create high quality and fast portal effect?
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So I've gotten the portal visual effect working with no performance hit, and I've got the physics set up of objects with rigidbodies moving through portals seamlessly, and objects with character ...
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How does one go about building Alien Swarm? [closed]
Valve just released Alien Swarm on steam, along with all the source code. I would love to build a version of it on my own machine and play a little bit with the code.
Has anyone here tried to build ...
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Valve Source Engine / UDK and CUDA
Do any games use the GPU for more game tasks than just rendering, as a way to reduce the game's load on the CPU? I'm most interested in games which use either Valve's Source engine or the UDK.
Is ...
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How does Half Life's covering work?
Enemies in this game take cover. AFAIK HL uses some logical decisions for enemy to start searching for cover and to abandon cover, and I am able so far to find them; but how does he find a cover ...
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Choosing an engine for a new game
Right now, I'm planning a new FPS single-player Half-Life 2/Call of Duty: Black Ops/Crysis 2-like, and I'm trying to determine what game engine should I use. Right now, my team is me, as a programmer, ...
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TF2 plugin signature (Source SDK)
I am working on the server plugin for TF2. I need it for getting some stats from game (no hacking and cheating). My problem: I got message "No valid signature found..." while testing my plugin. But I ...
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Source Engine AI assertion error during GetArrivalSequence()
I have been trying to make an npc in the Source Engine by following the SDK Docs tutorial and then using the npc_antlion.h/.cpp as a template for anything that wasn't clear. I've included my attempt ...
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What are the main requirements to port a game to Linux [closed]
Steam for Linux is out today and I was surprised to see many games already being sold, which made me wonder what are going to be the difficulties for all those games to be ported to Linux. I broke ...
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Where can I find current information on Valve's Source SDK?
Is there a "Source Engine" ("Source SDK from Valve) web page or blog with the latest information about the engine, its use, news, and anything else that is related?
