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Use loaded template data to generate in game objects/entities

I'm building a game to learn rust, I've built the data loader, and part of the ECS, the part I'm having trouble with is transforming the templates of entities into instances actual entities, I.E ...
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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]

Possible Duplicate: 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

Architecture description 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 ...