John McDonald

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I work on a verity of hobby projects, recently focusing on Asteroid Outpost (AO), an open-source 2D tower strategy game written using the XNA framework (C#), Awesomium WebUI, HTML + CSS3 + jQuery, and a component-based system.


90 Answers

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18
How to prevent the “Too awesome to use” syndrome
may 15 at 15:31
18
Isometric Collision Detection
apr 12 '12 at 16:35
18
Secure login for a game that is open source
nov 13 '11 at 17:22
13
Releasing a game without really having an officially registered company
mar 27 at 19:19
11
Quad Tree with a lot of Moving Objects
dec 5 '11 at 20:05
11
How forcefully should a single-player engine reject invalid data?
sep 11 '11 at 20:04
9
How to make a registration for my game?
may 24 '12 at 3:43
9
Bounding boxes in octrees
mar 15 '12 at 18:10
9
XNA C# How to draw fonts in different color
nov 18 '11 at 17:42
9
How can I assign entity IDs in a robust way in a network game?
oct 23 '11 at 13:12
9
Network client-server message exchange and clock synchronization help
oct 20 '11 at 13:55
8
center point of a text?
may 24 at 17:52
8
What is the best way to implement dialogs in an xna game?
jul 31 at 16:12
8
Can I achieve a torchlight effect (lighter area around a light source) in a 2D game?
jan 9 '12 at 19:40
8
Best solution for multiplayer realtime Android game
nov 10 '11 at 23:06
7
Transition Player Position
nov 14 '11 at 21:01
6
Drawing background is very costly/slow
jan 24 at 22:16
6
Stats on Screen Size for Flash Games
sep 18 at 14:44
6
Why does my health bar disappear whenever my character takes amage?
sep 5 at 14:52
6
Is there anything equivalent to Portal 2's linked_portal_door in any other engines?
aug 10 at 19:35
6
What are the drawbacks of this messaging system implementation?
feb 7 '12 at 22:11
6
SpriteSheet Animation with XNA
dec 1 '11 at 16:30
6
Better to use fixed sprite size or variable sprite sizes in a sprite sheet?
nov 8 '11 at 22:35
6
Where will my character stop?
oct 26 '11 at 15:51
5
Override close button
jun 21 '12 at 20:21
5
How to randomly create stars in the background?
may 26 '12 at 17:25
5
Distribute XNA as a standalone zip or exe (no installer needed)?
may 15 '12 at 15:29
5
2D Particle Explosion
apr 11 '12 at 22:21
4
How do I organize my class structure for networking?
oct 28 '11 at 20:07
4
How can I draw a texture line by line
jan 31 at 17:06
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