Questions tagged [architecture]
How code is structured. For questions on the internal design of a game engine.
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What information should be included in a render command?
I'm writing a 3D renderer for my engine and now that I'm working properly with a scenenode system, I've decided to implement render queues (command lists to some) and render commands. I wanted to know,...
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minecraft like game server database arhitecture
Let's say we have a 2d map 500*500 tiles in size. And each tile is editable by players and has many states. So it's 250k tiles. The game is multiplayer online game.
What would be the best approach ...
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How would I go about creating dynamic weapons using EC architecture?
I currently have a weapon component that contains common functionality across weapons (mainly guns).
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Right way to get reference from across scene object in unity
I need a reference for the game-object from another scene but the problem is that the scene object by default is off. So I thought that
I should place its reference in another script and get a ...
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How to manage network spawning?
I'm developing an multiplayer game "from scratch" (not using a big Engine-Suite like Unity but the lower-level libgdx).
Currently I've got a NetworkManager which handles the sending of messages on ...
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Is it better to store whole levels in one model file, or maintain smaller reusable models and a custom scene format? [closed]
I've experimented with a few small game engines over the past few years and usually I end up keeping models separate as a .dae or similar file, then designing a scene file format and hand-writing the ...
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Workflow for a data-heavy, almost spreadsheet-like management game
I'm absolutely fascinated by the management games, such as Football Manager, with dozens of spreadsheets and thousand of pieces of data.
Coding it all in Unity, especially for a prototype, feels like ...
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Is Loading Assets Before Game Start Necessary? [closed]
I am creating a relatively simple game engine that uses opengl.
Do I need to create a system that loads all the 3d models / textures from files before the game starts, or is loading them during ...
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Good data structure for storing graph-like map
I'm creating a strategy-based kingdom expansion game, where you start with one city and try to expand as far as possible from there. All the cities fit on a hexagon-grid and are connected by the edges ...
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Need help with making number system for idle game
So, I want to create a new game. I have problems with how to store large numbers in the game and how to output them. I have written a small pseudo code that contains everything I need to play the game ...
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dx11 Rendering to target texture shows only clearcolor(ImGUI-Custom Game Engine)
Im trying to create a game view for my game engine using ImGui framework,however when i try to render texture,there is only clear color displayed on the screen.
My plan
Creating Render Target ...
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How to document processes and concepts for a game?
For the sake of generating a documentation and having a reference for my self, I want to formalize some concepts, behaviors and processes in a proper way.
For example: My game has a game server. This ...
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How do rendering pipelines improve the performance of updating all the vertices every frame?
Let's say I am implementing a simple game engine, particularly the rendering part. From the high-level view we have some vertices which are copied to the graphics card alongside shader information etc....
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String storage in game engine
I've been designing the memory management module for my game engine, including things like custom allocators and when it came to allocating memory for strings I kinda got stuck.
What I mean by strings ...
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How can I implement an inventory that stores different types of items?
Let’s assume I want to create an RPG with collectible items my character can pick up and store in his inventory.
One item could be a sword, with an attack, defense, and level attributes.
Another ...
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Why are rotations in 2D game engines often counter-clockwise = positive systems?
I was looking over the API for a game engine a friend was developing in her spare time. She made the decision to make positive angles rotate in a clockwise direction. This immediately struck me as odd....
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How can I structure in-game menus?
I'm working on a multiplayer RPG using only C++ and SDL2. I've already made the main menu and a map editor, and I'm preparing to make the actual game. The main menu and map editor were easy to ...
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Events to communicate between game objects in a component based system?
I am planning to try and implement a small simple "game engine" thing, with game objects that have their components and all that. My problem is, how do they communicate with one another?
I understand ...
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How do I make match 3 blockers bigger than a 1x1 cell?
How do I implement blockers in a match 3 game that are bigger than the normal 1x1 cell size?
Here is a short example clip from the game Genies & Gems level 181. It shows a circle blocker of size ...
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UnityTeams: Files to publish but no Upload button
I am using Unity 2019.2.14f1 to build a game.
As I am working with a team, we have decided to use Unity Teams for the collaboration.
The project escalated and we ended up having to architecture a ...
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Does it make sense to combine both Fixed TimeStep and Semi-fixed TimeStep for different update methods in a game loop?
Recently, I have started developing my game engine and I have been reading about game loops and the differences between Fixed TimeStep and Semi-Fixed Timestep. Both of them can be found around the web,...
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Entity Component System. System and managed / filtered entities storage
Recently, I have been working on my own implementation of an ECS.
One of the decisions I made was to make systems store a contiguous vector with all the entities that the system would work on (for ...
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Game states and events
I'm writting a game in C++ and I'm struggling with getting events and game states work together.
By game states I mean something like this
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Adding a map without recompiling
I am creating a maze game in c++. I have a class that is used to create the walls with positioning and collision. I want the user to have the capability to include the header files needed for making ...
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'Destroyed Actors' and 'Save Games'
Background
Our team is creating an adventure platformer, and I have been tasked with creating a Save Game system.
Our game features the usual progression systems, and is relatively linear.
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Querying game objects in real-time
I'm thinking about working on a game where I need to find all the objects matching certain properties.
For instances I might need to look up all the objects...
Producing gold.
Whose level is 5 or ...
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Sidecar Processes in Unity?
I'm a .NET Core web developer trying to learn Unity. In web development, if I want to perform more than one domain function at a time, I either want to run it as a totally separate service (disjointed/...
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Solutions for generating signed builds for IOS and Android
I developed a small game engine and successfully generated xcode and android studio project files on Windows machine. Now I want to allow user to generate signed build in cloud and publish them. Is ...
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“Systems” needed for a box-pushing game
I already have an idea for a game. I also have a few years of experience with casual programming and game dev, and I know the messy while loop I had until now will not be enough for my next project.
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What Situations is Saving a Game to Main Memory for?
I've been reading through Unreal's 'Saving and Loading' guide: Link
Within, they present a capability to save a game to main memory rather than secondary storage:
I haven't found any information on ...
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How to static link modules using static variable constructor?
I'm trying to make my game engine supports both static and shared linked modules.
Basically I have a CREATE_MODULE macro that have 2 implementations. This is based on Unreal's method.
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Is it a good idea to use high-level API's in order to develop game engines?
I have been looking around the internet finding articles that talk about what you should learn to develop a game engine. Something that I keep hearing in many articles is that you should learn low-...
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Hidden copies of the environment in an entity component system
For reasons outside the scope of this question, my game has several full copies of the game environment running asynchronously. At any one time, only one of these is rendered.
This is trivial to ...
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How to script sequential events in GameMaker?
I am wondering if there is an elegant way to script sequential events in GameMaker 2.
In Godot 3.1, it is very easy to chain events together using yield() and ...
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Best way to program 'classes' that can apply and cancel status effects [duplicate]
Imagine a game like League of Legends.
A player can play choose a 'class' to play as. Their in-game character has the class equipped, and the class defines what abilities can be used.
These ...
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Unity - Logic for saving and loading objects with both static and dynamic data
I need help to get some structure for my save and load.
I am making a city builder, so I have Buildings thats need to be saved.
Each building has a lot of static Data, for example ...
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How to handle all the customization data for a Loot and Shooter?
Games like Borderlands, Fortnite, Destiny all have some sort of mechanic where your skills are modifiable by the equipment you carry.
For example in Borderlands, you can equip a pistol with generic ...
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Resetting variables when starting a new game
What is the best practice when implementing a way to start a game when a previous game has been played and the game's variables have already some kind of values assigned to them?
The most naive ...
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Catan Optimal Placement
Is it possible to calculate the best possible placements for settlements in Catan without using an ML algorithm?
While it is trivial to simply add up the numbers surrounding the settlement (highest ...
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How to Store AI Knowledge about the Game-World for AI Decision Making
I have a game-world with a fair amount of AI that have some Senses, like vision, hearing, touch, smell, etc.
But I'm not sure how to put that information in a single place for the individual AI to ...
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Asset Duplication in AssetForge
Is it possible to duplicate assets in AssetForge? For instance, if I build a house and want to duplicate the entire house to another spot with it.
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Abstraction for dialogue and quests in web game
I'm not very experienced with web languages, but I know a little bit of JavaScript. I'm working on creating a text-based rpg in HTML and need a way to modify dialogues for main story or quest ...
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Do multiple small script files use more RAM than one bigger script file?
So I'm still new to making games that have a baseline for computer resource usage and I'm confused with my question. I can't find an answer anywhere on the internet so I'm here.
Simple Question:
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Where should I put units and items in a squad-combat ECS-based game?
So I'm working on a game where squads of varied units would explore, fight, trade and build on an overworld map. Combat would be automated more or less, and happen on the overworld. Basically, ...
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How to make the player unable to change some of the game elements?
I am making a text turn based RPG fighting game in which you create your own spells. You also share them as JSON files with your friends. Sharing is required to win.
The game is designed so that it ...
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What's an acceptable delay between a player's action and the effects of the action being visible?
So, I'm creating a game where all the systems push events onto the event queue. Those events are then dispatched at the start of the next frame. This works fine, but there are some situations where ...
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Is it bad to store other memory in a system, alongside the components buffer using an Entity-Component-System architecture (ECS)?
I'm currently writing a simple ECS architecture for an engine and I have the fundamentals in place but after reading up on this architecture, it is designed in such a way that the memory is contiguous ...
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Use floats or doubles when writing mobile games
I know for shaders, floats should be used because they are the optimal choice for performance. Doubles are slow and use more memory which isn't ideal for shaders. While floats are less accurate and ...
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Can Mobile Games use Fragments instead of SurfaceViews?
All the tutorials of mobile games for android (such as this one), use the to display game objects. Most other applications tend to use an ...
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Does a thread in a mobile game serve the same purpose as a view model in a mobile application?
I'm trying to confirm up my understanding of the coding differences and similarities between mobile game design and mobile app design for Android devices using Java/Kotlin.
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