Questions tagged [data-driven]
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How to store data and behaviour for what happens within a level?
I made a game a year ago featuring a custom scripting language, but I realised that it took far too long to actually make the language and there were many commands that were very rarely used.
I'm ...
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How much data can a phone's USB transfer per second?
I'm conceiving a game that relies heavely on transfer speed from pc to phone. From USB it seems to be faster than wi-fi. But i can't get precise numbers on the net, everywhere tells me a diferente ...
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How can I create and load models with additional information?
I want to create game similar to original DOOM in Unity (using 2017.2). I'd like to make it possible to load entire levels from file, but I don't really want to write my own level editor that would ...
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Design pattern that can be used for data driven ability system [closed]
What are recommended design patterns for designing data-driven attribute system with data-driven abilities that would apply effect on target based on source attributes.
I have looked at following ...
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How to securely store xml/json information about actors in a game?
I'm developing a 2D "small" offline rpg game, and to this point I have many actors (mobs, heroes, NPCs) and what I did, is created a class named "Actor" and each time I have a new actor I create a ...
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Data Driven Design and Game Screen Resolution
So I have just begun studying Data Driven Design and implementing it into a project. I just encountered an issue and I have not be able to locate any material that suggests an elegant if not practical ...
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How to create data driven effects/abilities for collectable card game
I'm trying to create cards for a ccg/tcg that are completely "data-driven" from an xml/json/external file. I've read multiple articles on this issue already, even here on stack exchange, but i can't ...
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How can I facilitate communication between "attack" and "movement" components?
I'm currently programming in Unreal, but this is more of a component oriented design question.
I'm trying to follow a component driven aproach, and I have currently achieved creating a movement ...
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Create entity from template in component-based engine
For my project I would like to use a component-based entities in C++. My current implementation is split to these parts:
Systems - Contain a map of components of certain class and operate on these. ...
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Dialog/event system in Java/libGDX
I hope that I'm posting this correctly as I'm new to the site, feel free to correct me if I'm in the wrong spot.
As for my issue:
I'm working on an 2D side-scrolling platformer game in libGDX, and I'...
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How to manage state in a component-based game engine?
I'm working on a small, data-driven game engine with some friends.
We use GameObjects (a.k.a. Entities, Actors, or whatever it is called in your favorite engine) to represent every entity in the game....
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How to handle game objects in DirectX
Coming from XNA, I would use the content pipeline and create XML files for game objects. However, if I changed something in the XML, I would need to do a rebuild of the project so it will create the ...
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How can I provide attribute extensibility in a component-based entity system?
This question and its answers move against utilizing an entity component system where the component itself is just a generic class with an dynamic container for the attributes/properties of the ...
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How to store generic data in game database?
To clarify things a bit:
I want to create a kind of database for my game, that simply is a class that stores all game-state information like object positions, player scores, etc.
The main problem I ...
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Data driven tool for gamedesigner [closed]
I'm looking for a software my gamedesigner can use setting monster characteristics.
Like one row of all monster types (and ability to add new ones)
One column of all 'templates' (normal, small, big, ...
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When should I hard-code data versus load external data?
I'm a thousand or so lines of code into making my own 2D space-based game, which creates networks of randomly generated star systems and populates them with a random selection of planets, stations, ...
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How to structure code for many unique weapons/spells/powers
I'm an inexperienced programmer creating a "roguelike-like" game in the vein of FTL, using Python (no PyGame as of yet as I'm still only concerned with text).
My game will contain a large number of ...
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How does the Path of Exile ItemRenderer determine the items' rarity?
This question is really specific to Path of Exile and their forum.
Basically, they render the items from a json object.
require(["PoE/Item/DeferredItemRenderer"], function(R) { (new R(JSON)) })
And ...
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Integer vs String for "type" data in data-driven games
I've been developing a few mobile games, in which those games fetch their data from a server-database.
I'm used to storing "type" values as an integer identifier, and an enum in the client to ...
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How to store data in a data-driven RPG [duplicate]
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Would it be better to use XML/JSON/Text or a database to store game content?
I'm working on a 2D data-driven RPG. I intend for it to be modabble; my intention is to expose all ...
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Compile-time checking for component-based, data-driven games
This is not a specific question, but rather someone who is looking for opinions about a typical design problem. In a component based data-driven games, I've often seen something similar to the ...
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How are "game rules" considered as data, in data-driven engines?
I've read the definition of a data-driven game engine, in several places, and one item usually mentioned is the game rules: separating them from the logic of the engine. What is meant by a "game rule"?...
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How should I structure an extensible asset loading system?
For a hobby game engine in Java, I want to code a simple but flexible asset/resource manager. Assets are sounds, images, animation, models, textures, et cetera. After a few hours of browsing and some ...
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Processing component pools problem - Entity Subsystem
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I'm creating (designing) an entity system and I ran into many problems. I'm trying to keep it Data-Oriented and efficient as much as possible. My components are POD ...
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How do i make player input object spawning data driven?
I'm using component based design and am at the stage or re-factoring simple player input to be data driven.
Currently i have a PlayerControlComponent, which an ...
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Game engine and data driven design
I've heard about data driven design and have been researching about it for a while. So, I've read several articles to get the concepts.
One of the article is Data Driven Design written by Kyle ...
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Drawbacks of using reflection for a component based system at loading-time
I'm coding a little casual game in Java using Slick2D.
This game use a lot of different "objects", managed in a composite way. So, firearms, furniture in the map, NPC and player character will be ...
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