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What's a way to implement a flexible buff/debuff system?

Overview: Lots of games with RPG-like statistics allow for character "buffs", ranging from simple "Deal 25% extra damage" to more complicated things like "Deal 15 damage back to attackers when hit." ...
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What's the largest “relative” level I can make using float?

Just like it was demonstrated with games like dungeon siege and KSP, a large enough level will start to have glitches because of how floating point works. You can't add 1e-20 to 1e20 without losing ...
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Game State 'Stack'?

I was thinking about how to implement game states into my game. The main things I want for it are: Semi-transparent top states-being able to see through a pause menu to the game behind Something OO-I ...
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When several classes need to access the same data, where should the data be declared?

I have a basic 2D tower defense game in C++. Each map is a separate class which inherits from GameState. The map delegates the logic and drawing code to each object in the game and sets data such as ...
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Any tips for creating cross-platform games? [closed]

Do you have any tips/recommendations when creating a cross-platform game in C/C++?
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In 2D, how do I efficiently find the nearest object to a point?

I have a sizable game engine and I'd like a feature for finding the nearest of a list of points. I could simply use the Pythagorean theorem to find each distance and choose the minimum one, but that ...
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What are some programming design patterns that are useful in game development? [closed]

I have a few books on Design Patterns, and have read some articles, but cannot intuitively figure out which programming design patterns would be useful in game development. For example, I have a book ...
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Is UDP still better than TCP for data-heavy realtime games?

I know that UDP is usually recommended for real-time multiplayer games with high data usage. Most articles are serval years old, and since ~80% of all data transmitted on the internet is TCP, a lot ...
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How to lead a moving target from a moving shooter

I saw this question: Predicting enemy position in order to have an object lead its target. My situation is a little different though. My target moves, and the shooter moves. Also, the shooter's ...
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Optimized rendering of a cube mesh world

I want to render a cube-mesh (a.k.a. Minecraft-style) world. If I render each existing cube it will eat up FPS pretty quickly. How can I optimize it? I understand that the point is to not render ...
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How to create adjustable formula for RPG level up requirements?

I'm trying to create a formula that can be modified simply by changing two values: number_of_levels, and last_level_experience. This is to enable people modding the game to change the levelling ...
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How are deterministic games possible in the face of floating-point non-determinism?

To make a game like an RTS networked, I've seen a number of answers here suggest to make the game completely deterministic; then you only have to transfer the users' actions to each other, and lag ...
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Implementing a camera / viewport to a 2D game

What is the most practical way to implement camera/viewport to a 2D-game? I've read, that I should store the object world position instead of position relative to the screen? Current situation: I ...
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Fast, accurate 2d collision

I'm working on a 2d topdown shooter, and now need to go beyond my basic rectangle bounding box collision system. I have large levels with many different sprites, all of which are different shapes and ...
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Is it safe to use Sleep() in game loop (on Windows)?

Is it safe to use Sleep() function on Windows in game loop (C++)? I want to have fixed frame rate.
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C++ low-level optimization tips [closed]

Assuming you already have the best-choice algorithm, what low-level solutions can you offer for squeezing the last few drops of sweet sweet frame rate out of C++ code? It goes without saying that ...
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Good GUI for OpenGL? [closed]

I am starting to learn OpenGL with FreeGLUT using the Superbible and the knowledge I have from my elementary graphics to brush up on my skills. To get more from this experience I want to integrate a ...
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How can you put all images from a game to 1 file?

I've just finished a basic RPG game written in C++ SFML, I've put a lot of effort into the game and I'd want to distribute it, however I've ran into a small issue. Problem is, I have well over 200 ...
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What C++ GUI library can you suggest? [closed]

I'm building my own game engine in C++ and I'm currently deciding on what user interface I should use. Should I use a library? Should I make my own?
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How to implement the interaction between engine parts?

I want to ask a question about how the information exchange between game engine parts should be implemented. The engine is separated in four parts: logic, data, UI, graphics. In the beginning I made ...
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How do I calculate how an object will move from one point to another?

Here's the problem: A player starts the game in the 0 coordinate (x=0,y=0). When the user clicks on the screen, it returns the coordinates of the destination. Now the player has to move from its ...
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How do I create a save file for a C++ game?

I am coding my final for a Video game Programming course, and I want to know how to create a save file for my game, so that a user can play, and then come back later. Any idea how this is done, every ...
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game story event programming

I have developed a game engine in c/c++ and DirectX. I have a tile engine for the maps, animated player/npc sprites, talking to the npc, menus, and level changing but there is no game, it just feels ...
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Implementing a skybox with GLSL version 330

I am trying to get a skybox working with OpenGL 3.3 and GLSL version 330. I could not find a completely modern OGL skybox tutorial anywhere on the web, so I modernised an older one (using ...
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I am looking to create realistic car movement using vectors

I have goggled how to do this and found this http://www.helixsoft.nl/articles/circle/sincos.htm I have had a go at it but most of the functions that were showed didn't work I just got errors because ...
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How to load a spherical planet and its regions?

I'm designing a game partially composed of planets exploration. I want to use pseudo-random generation for them, regenerating from a defined seed when I have to load them rather than store every ...
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Is it possible to use C++ with Unity instead of C#?

The title kind of says it all. Is it possible to replace C# with C++ on a game using Unity?
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Should collision detection be done server-side or cooperatively between client/server?

I am working on an online game that will have very heavy collision detection processing. Player models will collide with other players, mobs, structures, terrain, and solid objects that only exist ...
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When should vector/list be used?

I can understand when to use lists, but I don't understand when it is better to use vectors than using lists in video games: when it is better to have fast random access ? (And I understand why it's ...
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how to detect same keyboard key press only once

I am designing a keyboard class that can detect the keyboard key press only one time but I still cannot figure out the way to do it. My goal is just check and perform the action only once when the ...
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How do I fix my planet-facing camera?

Summary I'm having trouble implementing a camera controller suitable for first person use around a planet. The camera needs to be oriented correctly according to gravity (vector from camera ...
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How should I rotate vertices around the origin on the CPU?

I have tried using glm::rotate and such. glm::translate works fine, but rotate doesn't work (if I rotate before/after a translation). Here is my current setup: ...
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Floating point precision issue with Box2D

I'm using Box2D and I am putting edge tiles as b2Bodies so that the tile world can have physics: The problem is that there are 3 b2_kinematic bodies under the player right beside each other. Every so ...
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STL for games, yea or nay? [closed]

Every programming language has its standard library of containers, algorithms, and other helpful stuff. With languages like C#, Java, and Python, it's practically inconceivable to use the language ...
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Easy to use cross-platform 3D engines for C++ game development? [closed]

I want to try my hand at writing a 3D game. However I don't want to start at such a low level of drawing individual triangles and writing my own 3D object loader and so on. I've heard of things like ...
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What are the common rendering optimization techniques for the geometry pass in a deferred shading renderer? [closed]

I have been developing a game engine using OpenGL 3 and C++ (and glfw for window management). I have advanced so far, got most of the things done except sound entities and optimizations. The engine ...
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How do you add a scripting language to a game?

Let's say I have a game written in C++. But I want to add some modding or scripting functionality to it. How would one go about adding a scripting functionality to your game?
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Custom Content Package for Files

I am about to purchase quite a few model packs from a website for prototyping my game. In the contract it states that I must protect them as to prevent the public from gaining access to them. I ...
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What is the difference between an impulse and a force related to a physics engine?

What is the difference between an application of an impulse and an application of a force in relation to a physics engine?
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Starting out with OpenGL when most tutorials are out of date [closed]

I'm sure there are already a bunch of questions like this asked, but the constant updating of the OpenGL library throws them all away, and in a month or two, the answers here will be worthless again. ...
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Animation Blending Basics

Say I have a framework with characters that can run and walk and of course, stand still. Am I right in thinking that animation blending is the process of smoothly transitioning between these by ...
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Normals vs Normal maps

I am using Assimp asset importer (http://assimp.sourceforge.net/lib_html/index.html) to parse 3d models. So far, I've simply pulled out the normal vectors which are defined for each vertex in my ...
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How can I improve my collision detection's performance?

I'm new to programming and want to speed up the collision detection in my C++ 2D platformer game engine. Currently, only the player's collision detection works: Every frame, the player's update ...
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Determining Poker Hands

I have been making a Texas Hold'Em game as a part of an assessment, and I have been mulling over how to examine the 7 available cards and determine if hands exist. The only possible method I can ...
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Should an object in a 2D game render itself?

I'm making a 2D street fighter-like game that is not tile based. Usually people recommend that entities be given to a renderer that render them, not them render themselves, but it seems the inverse is ...
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Different shaders for different objects DirectX 11

I am learning Direct3D 11, and in all basic tutorials I found on shader writing, Vertex and Pixel shaders are written so they transform whole scene same way. ...
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Programming a climbing system like tomb raider

I was wondering if anyone knew or had knowledge of how to program a climbing system like the one found in tomb raider/uncharted. I had thought of just having bounding boxes at all the climbable ...
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Game loop, how to check for conditions once, do something, then not do it again

For example, I have a Game class and it keeps an int that tracks the player's lives. I have a conditional ...
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Proper way to handle destruction of game entities

Imagine a game world where loads and loads of entities are dynamicly loaded all the time, I would represent that as a list of entities perhaps, but what about removing them? While when adding i ...
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Toggle Fullscreen at Runtime

Using the library GLFW, I can create a fullscreen window using this line of code. glfwOpenWindow(Width, Height, 8, 8, 8, 8, 24, 0, GLFW_FULLSCREEN); The line for ...

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