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Aug 3	comment	STL for games, yea or nay? "Know when to trade performance for convenience". Yes. This sentence alone is as good an answer as any. Figure out what you need to achieve with your game, consult peers and decide if STL will help you get there or hinder you. I'd say if you're not looking to set the bar for next-gen graphics and performance with your game, STL will probably help you.
Aug 3	answered	Motion capture for indie developers?
Jun 28	comment	Draw “vision cone” / targetting element onto game world Interesting, for some reason I hadn't thought of using the lower level drawing functions for this. Triangle Fan is practically designed for this exact scenario. Something like this would seat nicely with Ogre's Manual Object, and should be fast enough to generate it each frame if it's changing that much. Thanks!
Jun 28	asked	Draw “vision cone” / targetting element onto game world
Jun 27	revised	Looping 3D environment in shmups added 502 characters in body
Jun 27	answered	Looping 3D environment in shmups
Jun 26	comment	How do I structure a 2D platform level? That article is very helpful. It doesn't mention background scrolling, though, which can in some cases be challenging. I think the important thing to remember with regards to scrolling is that your tiles (or non-tiled world) have to be translated into pixel positions first based on where the camera is. While most of my programming has been in 3D, it stands to reason that in 2D games you still want to mostly disassociate the camera from the world. In pure side-scrolling platformers you may end up locking the camera vertically to the character while giving them some "play" horizontally, etc.
Jun 26	answered	How are realistic 3D faces created and animated in video games?
Jun 26	answered	Turn-based board game server references?
Jun 6	answered	C++ Game engine time scale
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Jun 4	answered	Defining the track in a 2D racing game
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Jun 4	revised	What's a way to implement a flexible buff/debuff system? added 1192 characters in body
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Jun 4	accepted	What's a way to implement a flexible buff/debuff system?
Jun 4	comment	What's a way to implement a flexible buff/debuff system? As I understand it with my minimal experience, this is the traditional way to implement stat mods in RPG games. It works well and is easy to understand and implement. The downside is it doesn't seem to leave me any room to do things like the "thorns" buff, or something more advanced or situational. It also has historically been the cause of some exploits in RPGs, although they're pretty rare, and since I'm making a single player game, if someone finds an exploit I'm not really that concerned. Thanks for the input.