Questions tagged [architecture]
How code is structured. For questions on the internal design of a game engine.
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How to keep consistent between image quality, device range support and final size of the game?
I develop a game with LibGdx framework but I would like to discuss more theoretical question.
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I want to support as many devices as possible for my game (phones and tablets)
I want to see ...
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Set the Number of Levels at Runtime
Could anyone suggest a way that I can allow a user to set the number of levels that will be in a Unity3d game at runtime, and load them accordingly?
The level design information is held in text ...
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Slot Probability Function
Please can someone point me in the right direction. I'm working on a slot game. that I'm having trouble figuring how to implement the probability function for. The game has a set of symbols that bets ...
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What is a good dev kit that isn't an engine but we can build an engine around more easily? Preferably C++/C# [on hold]
Background
I've been working on a game in my spare time for the last 2-3 years. It is built in Game Maker because of the following reasons:
I like the IDE a lot and I'm used to it.
I like how easy ...
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What strategies and patterns exist to handle large amounts of game entities?
I've been wondering this for some time now: Let's say you have a builder game like Anno and let's say you're in the very late game. You have literally thousands of production facilities placed. Each ...
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can the ECS paradigm actually help writing maintanable code? [closed]
can ECS be seen not only as a tool to write faster code, but as an actual paradigm to write maintainable code in a better way than could be done with OOP?
I am going to reply to this question myself,...
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Audio architecture in Unity: a time vs space paradox
Assuming we have a well imported audio clips setup.
For audio clips that are quite similar and just vary by some slight differences on the shape, would you rather have them as separate files (Space: ...
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Can I have a scene graph translation node with multiple parent nodes?
I am trying to write a C++ scene graph structure. While designing the node classes I am facing the below issue.
I have a scene graph to represent a house.
I would like to have another house next to ...
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Should I throw out game heavily using OpenGL 2.0 and rewrite it from scratch?
I've picked up one old open source game (done with C++/Lua) with a lot of features and chosen to continue its development. It use SDL2 (ported by me from 1.2) and OpenGL 2.0. Now when I look at futher ...
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Quadtree having ownership of entities, worth it?
Typically, you would have a list of entities stored somewhere, and you'd use quadtree when you need some collision testing between entities for example, by inserting all of the entities and generating ...
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How do you make sure that a component can be applied to very different entities?
I know there's lots of posts about this sort of thing, and I've read a lot of them, but there's some gaps that I can't seem to fill in my head.
Specifically, I've been reading about the SOLID ...
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How to avoid lots of booleans
This was probably asked somewhere but I can't google anything for some reason.
So I'm making a puzzle game as a result I have lots of booleans which affect the game only once and become redundant.
As ...
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Where to keep game images
I am new to gamedev, and I have one question about architecture. Where to locate game images? Should I keep this in the class object or in the main function and draw it depending on object variables?
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Read function outside of code while run-time?
Hi it is my first post on this community. So if i was rude or something please let me know :)
So I just started learning game development alone. It's been about 1 year since I begin to learn c and c++...
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Is it a good or bad thing to allow hot-loading of changes of game rules without official updates and restarts of server and clients? [closed]
I’m working on such feature for my project that we allow the game designer to tweak game rules, from small things like item prices to bigger like probability for different randomizations, while the ...
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Splitting action execution and validation logic in a client/server board game
I'm developing a board game where players can perform actions depending on the game state. The client runs through all actions types and based on the game state presents the possible actions to the ...
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Is there an accepted architecture for these classes? [closed]
I am coding a game in python and so far so good, but I feel like my classes are not very modular. This is a simplification of what I've done:
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Need help deciding on an ability system in Unity
I'm making an RPG and got to the point where I want a player to be able to use abilities. I decided to use a command pattern to keep keybindings flexible and now I've arrived with the following ...
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Turn Based Game - Best approach for Server communication. TCP/IP or REST API?
I want to create a turn base multiplayer game where each player simultaneously takes his/her actions, and ends the turn. Both will see what the other player did afterwards and the next round begins.
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How can I make 3D games in 4K that are a few megabytes?
I would like to make 3D games in 4K that are a few Megabytes (MB) in download size.
Is there a way to use 3D Vector Graphics in games to reduce the file size ?
Or is there any other way to achieve ...
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Text Adventure - Engine actions based on dialogues
Building forward my text adventure i stumbled upon how to actually drive the actions that can be caused by dialogs. I wrote the dialogues and the logic around handling them already, but i'm missing a ...
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What happens when a game is burned to a CD?
What is happening behind the scenes when you take a code base and "burn" it to a CD be read by a game console?
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How do I move many “static relative to each other” objects around?
I'm currently building an Elevator Bank simulator in Unity3d and I'm stuck on how to reduce the amount of objects it's going to generate when it's done. The simulator will consist of one player (for ...
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Decoupling Input from Update/Physics Movement in a Game Engine
I have some troubles figuring out how to decouple the input handling from the physics part (includes movement).
My Game loop looks like this
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Handling game message packet loss at low speed and at a microcontroller level
I read this: How do I handle packet loss in a client-server network model?
...But I'm looking for more advice.
Currently I'm implementing my own lazertag vests. I'm programming hardware (8051 ...
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How can I implement multi-platform build system for my custom engine?
I'm programming a simple game engine. But I got stuck. How can I build to project on engine for any platform Android / iOs / Linux & etc?
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Which fixed framerate should i choose for physics thread?
I am writing first-person shooter game with fast motion. I have a fixed high-frequency physics loop thread, which is separated from variable-frequency rendering thread. I need to choose the physics ...
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Event queue: tell or ask?
I'm working my way through a lot of game development resources, coming from a completely different field of software development, I'm interested in learning what patterns are frequently used in game ...
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How should a game server receive/send udp packets with a defined tick rate?
I currently have a game server with a customizable tick rate, but for this example let's suggest that the server is only going to tick once per second or 1hz. I'm wondering what's the best way to ...
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Authorization in scaling multiplayer game
I have an architectural problem associated with authorization.
I'm making an MMORPG multiplayer mobile game without separation onto different servers. What I mean by that is that a player from USA ...
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Separating game logic and rendering logic in separate static libraries
I'm trying to write a game in C++ using OpenGL. I've tried to separate my game logic and my rendering logic as much as possible, and up until now, this has worked for me. I haven't written a lot of ...
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How to Design a Generic Collision Detection System?
I'm designing a C++ 2D collision module, and I ran into a problem designing a system where the collider is unaware of the shape it's colliding against.
I'd like to have a abstract base class called ...
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Tiledata management
I've been trying to create a grid-based open world game. In order to do that I've decided to create a personal map editor. The problem I've encountered is handling data because of the actual data size....
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Solutions for maintaining importers and exporters when chaning file formats
After having a very short discussion with Delix on youtube (see link below) on custom data storage formats, I started thinking. What are some useful ways of maintaining importers / exporters when you ...
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How to organize passing data to shaders in cross-API render system?
I try to create rendering system that supports DirectX and OpenGL. I am trying to create class for constant buffer, but DirectX constant buffers and OpenGL uniform buffers have different memory ...
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How to implement ECS in a videogame with C++?
What do I need to know in order to implement ECS in a video game? I'm developing a video game and so far I wasn't using any complete architecture, I was just using inheritance but I don't like it ...
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C++: Setup the basic Update function in different classes which all derive from GameObject
Im working on a little game-framework in c++. Currently i have a (base)class called "GameObject" from which all future in-game objects will derive from.
Class enemy will be ...
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How can I deploy and unreal engine windows exe build to the cloud?
I don’t have a coding background, so I am struggling with this. Someone will have to dumb down a lot of the language for me.
I’m trying to deploy my unreal engine game to a cloud computing service ...
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Spell casting in a Turn based game
I'm trying to make a start on a Spell/Skill system similar to a Moba or MMO from my project where you would press the skill button and see what type of targeting it has then aim (either in an area or ...
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Server-side and client-side code management alongside API
Working on a new multiplayer game with an API, I'm struggling with code management and separating the client-side and server-side code. For context, I'm writing everything in C# (Monogame or OpenTK). ...
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Dynamic object creation from data
I want to write somewhat randomized object activation effects, like when you step on a trap, you can be tepelorted, damaged, cursed and so on. I applied strategy pattern for this: damage/healing ...
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Handling “nested” user actions in client/server card game
I'm developing a card game in JavaScript in a functional programming style and I'm unsure what is the best way to implement the flow of player actions that require other player actions for their ...
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C++ - How to create an engine editor without frameworks like qt and wxWidgets?
Basically sometimes I like to try to venture into the world of graphics computing, sometimes I have a project or another that uses opengl plus all the "blind" with opengl, I wanted to be able to ...
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Should I avoid using object inheritance as possible to develop a game?
I prefer OOP features when developing games with Unity. I usually create a base class (mostly abstracted) and use object inheritance to share the same functionality to the various other objects.
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Why is Game Logic so Decentralized
So I've dipped my toe in and out of game programming pretty regularly over the past few years and all of the tutorials I've watched and books I've read have all had one thing in common that perplexed ...
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Can a Game Engine be built into a Game Engine?
This confuses me as the title says "Mostly Civilized: A Hex-Based 4x Game Engine for Unity - Part 1"
Unity is a Game Engine, and he is building a game engine for a game engine.
Did he word this ...
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MySQL for MMO-Development… What do i have to consider ?
Im currently developing an little mmo.
Its pretty basic, players can walk around... gather some resources... build some simple buildings and craft things.
Before i began to develop i read a lot about ...
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Managing different types of Actors/Entities in a rendering engine
I'm coding a simple game engine using DirectX11, and I'm stuck on how to implement a kind of ECS. Now my rendering system look like this (sorry if the diagram is not real UML, it's just for ...
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Is it advisable to maintain a separation between the engine and the game?
As I'm reading Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture I keep wondering how all the advice presented can be applied in game development. Games are nothing more that highly interactive real-time simulations and ...
