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Professional game developer - programmer, designer, and musician. Previously a web developer, and GIS developer. Experience in MMOs, C++, SQL, Python, networking, concurrency, distributed systems, scripting, and various game and web technologies.

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What are some programming design patterns that are useful in game development?

How does Dwarf Fortress keep track of so many entities without losing performance?

Do retail games use “inversion of control” and “dependency injection”?

Does an inventory limit in an MMORPG make sense?

Fight with creativity burnout

Why is there a lack of games for Linux?

How much assembly is really used in modern game code?

Are there existing FOSS component-based frameworks?

Is game development a no money field?

Huge procedurally generated 'wilderness' worlds

How should I structure a design document?

Hide game data from player?

How do I turn a game idea, into a game?

From release to business

One Step-Ahead A-Star

How is AI most commonly implemented in popular games?

Game planning and software design? I feel that UML is not convenient

X, Y, Z coordinate standards?

Graphical quality of open source vs. commercial games

What graphic is Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Alundra, etc

What level editor is Phil Fish using in Indie Game: The Movie?

Costs/profit of/when starting an indie company

Why should I use separate initialization and clean up methods instead of putting logic in the constructor and destructor for engine components?

Multi-platform multi-threading: What are the real challenges?

For games that time stamp a saved game (think Half-Life), is the entire game state really being saved every time?

Why don't C++ Game Developers use the boost library?

Do higher-level 'Pure AI' concepts (such as Neural-Nets or Genetic Algos) ever get implemented successfully in commercial games?

How do you prevent inflation in a virtual economy?

Tricks in game mechanics to avoid dealing with network lag compensation?

Little and big endianness in games