Topics about games made for Microsoft Windows products. These include Windows 7, Vista, XP.
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Application window as polygon texture?
Is there a way, or method, to have some application rendered as texture in 3D scene on some polygon, and also have full interactivity with it?
I'm talking about Windows platform, and maybe OpenGL but ...
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At this point in time, avoid XNA? [closed]
XNA seemed like a valid option a few years ago, but XNA was never a real success, and now it seems like a footnote, even Microsoft seems to treat it that way.
Should I just go the DirectX route ...
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How can I make iPhone apps (games) on Windows?
I want to start making iPhone games, but sadly I'm a Windows geek.. Is there a way to make good profesional iPhone games without Xcode/owning a Mac computer?
If not, what do you recommend, a Mac ...
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Does SFML render it's graphics using OpenGL internally?
By that, I mean that SFML has an abstraction for OpenGL? Sort of like SDL's blit functions, but using OpenGL internally?
"Yes SFML uses OpenGL for all the graphical stuff. "
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XNA Games running on Windows 8
Will Games developed on XNA work under a Windows 8 environment?
I know the XNA project was killed off, and you can't develop it on Windows 8 (apparently), but will they still work under windows 8? I ...
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Is it possible to create a Facebook game that is a Windows executable?
I'm thinking of trying to make a game, and I heard Facebook is good place to make it popular, but I don't want to make a sprite-based Flash game, I want to use OpenGL for rendering to get nice ...
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How can I access game instance data in a window procedure callback?
In the window procedure message processing function, I have come across a couple of things where I just have no idea what to do apart from declare a class globally so that my window procedure can see ...
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How to request a specific OpenGL version?
I'm working on an OpenGL project, coming from D3D. They're organised in very different ways, so it's tricky going :)
Is there any way for a Windows application to request a specific OpenGL context ...
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Using DirectX9 within Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 8?
Asking the question here simply because my PC is down for the count for a while and wasn't able to stave a curiosity before that happened.
I picked up a few books about programming Games in DirectX, ...
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DirectX 9.0c and C++ GUI
Well, I'm trying to code a gui for my engine, but I've got some problems.
I know how to make a UI overlay but buttons are still black magic for me. Anything I tried was to compilcated ( if it goes big ...
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Moving the camera as in a first person shooter
I am trying to implement the movement of the camera with the mouse. The result I want to achieve is the same that you get when you move your aim in a first person shooter.
Here is the code I wrote, ...
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Creating transparent image with localGraphicsConfig not always working
Consider using the following, commented-out code (https://github.com/kozie/twodee/blob/master/src/nl/kozie/twodee/Display.java#L135-L136).
This creates an empty image which i'm filling with a mosaic ...
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record and replay directinput events
I am trying to build a record and replay system for a couple of games. I was wondering if I can make a general replay engine using directinput rather than doing an specific implementation for each ...
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Application to record sound effects for games
I'm having kids record sounds using their PCs (a few have Macs as well) for use in the games they create. The built-in windows 7 sound recorder is surprisingly poor, didn't older versions of windows ...
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Windows Events lag behind
I'm making a simple openGL application and so far I can get the window to display, the update/render loop work, and it processes windows events (like WM_QUIT and WM_MOUSE). I've found though that ...
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Opengl tutorials [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some good learning resources for OpenGL?
Starting out with OpenGL when most tutorials are out of date
I know that there are many questions like this, but i ...
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2D Game Dev Resources/Tutorials for Windows (Phone) 8 Development? [closed]
I am really exited about the launch of windows 8, windows phone 8 so I decided to start learning how to develop games for them. I was even more exited when I found out that html, css, javascript can ...
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Running Unreal 3D Engine (2003) on Windows 7
General question. My company developed a custom software for simulating combat scenarios using the Unreal 3D Engine (2003). It currently runs on XP-based Dell system. Sometime in the Fall Dell is ...
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Programming games for Windows
I've programmed a couple simple games so far, in C++ as that's my language of choice, all using open source, cross platform libraries, they're great. I'd like to understand how are cross platform ...
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How to disable and re-enable video card and keyboard drivers on Windows as part of program testing? [closed]
For my game I want to give the user full control. I am writing a hangman game where the user has the option of pressing the 'X' key on the keyboard to disable the keyboard driver completely, and 'G' ...
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C# vs Java for Cross-Platform Game Dev [closed]
What would be better for PC (Windows, Linux, Mac) games?
I know Java is more mature/older and has a giant user base, but I see C# (Mono) slowly rising and showing that it has a growing user base as ...
