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What things should an indie game developer never do?

jan 1 '11 at 11:22 Adrian Grigore 101

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What math should all game programmers know?

programming math

jul 18 '11 at 3:12 bobobobo 7,031

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Good game design books?

tutorials books game-design

jan 2 '12 at 8:42 Anvaka 101

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Where can I find free music for my game?

assets free music

dec 6 at 12:09 Mischa 101

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2D graphics - why use spritesheets?

xna 2d graphics-programming

jan 25 '12 at 8:59 ver 279

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How does A* pathfinding work?

algorithm path-finding computer-science

feb 13 '12 at 14:20 jhocking 8,212

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Are there any 2D gaming libraries/frameworks/engines for Android?

2d engine android

jun 21 '12 at 8:35 Ellis 2,990

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How is 2D lighting implemented?

xna 2d lighting graphic-effects

may 11 '12 at 14:01 arriu 2,548

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New to creating AI - where to start?

2d programming ai

nov 27 at 14:36 Gagege 320

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Why is this beat detection code failing to register some beats properly?

c# programming audio

oct 30 at 7:16 Jonathan Hobbs 5,609

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What tools do you use for 2D art/sprite creation?

2d art

mar 6 at 11:39 qvatra 1

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Multi-threaded games best practices. One thread for 'logic', one for rendering, or more?

multithreading

feb 10 '11 at 9:52 Bob Somers 995

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How to generate random level from a seed?

algorithm procedural-generation random

may 13 '12 at 10:33 Deozaan 3

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How can I make a good-looking explosion particle effect?

graphics textures particles

jan 8 '12 at 6:35 Nathan Reed 13.5k

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Multi-threaded game (engine) design resources?

engine programming multithreading resources

mar 21 '12 at 13:19 Koarl 526

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What are your favourite game-specific coding gems?

algorithm

apr 7 '12 at 23:31 Sam Hocevar 12k

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How can I achieve a good fire effect with alpha blending and particles?

opengl particles blending

jan 29 '12 at 7:36 Aram Kocharyan 255

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What are some non-obvious topics to learn for game development?

research

jan 18 '12 at 19:15 Josh Petrie 30.3k

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Doing powerups in a component-based system

architecture component-based entity-system

sep 7 at 6:08 Community♦ 1

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

cross-platform multithreading sdl

aug 25 '11 at 10:06 Kylotan 18.3k

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Making walls in tile-based games: what am I missing?

c++ tiles level-design

aug 4 '11 at 4:01 Bryan Harrington 509

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Several classes need to access the same data, where should the data be declared?

c++ architecture engine game-loop

may 15 '12 at 17:27 BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft 3,612

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What is a good algorithm to detect collision between moving spheres?

collision-detection

aug 27 '11 at 0:35 muntoo 194

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Collision 100% avoidance implementation

collision-detection ai

jan 24 '12 at 8:40 user_123abc 530

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Do iOS users use Facebook and Twitter buttons within games?

aug 29 '11 at 16:23 Dan the Man 1,236

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Find Nearest Object

c++ 2d algorithm

nov 8 at 15:14 Eric 2,199

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A good way to prototype game ideas?

game-design prototyping

may 6 '11 at 23:35 brandon 2,985

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Is game development a no money field?

indie career

apr 1 at 23:36 Stephen 436

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When should vector/list be used?

c++ algorithm data-structure

apr 19 '11 at 18:21 bmcnett 865

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Advice for a first year CS major

game-design java

oct 25 '10 at 14:27 Matt Rix 421

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