User Jesse Emond

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What are atan and atan2 used for in games?

answered Jul 8, 2011 at 2:21

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How do I generate projectiles toward the mouse pointer?

answered Jun 7, 2011 at 22:03

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How do I go from a general idea to a specific draft of a design?

answered Oct 16, 2011 at 14:20

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Problems making my basketball bounce around horizontally

answered Jul 20, 2011 at 0:48

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Moving a sprite in XNA/C#, using vectors

answered Jan 26, 2011 at 22:20

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Stuck in Wall after rectangle bounding box collision

answered Jun 1, 2011 at 3:18

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Mouse location is off due to camera

answered May 18, 2011 at 12:34

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I want to get rid of my make-everything-static-and-global design pattern, but how?

answered Jul 29, 2011 at 13:49

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Angle of Reflection

answered Jun 16, 2011 at 16:44

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How do I detect the direction of 2D rectangular object collisions?

answered Jun 17, 2011 at 0:43

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What was the game project that felt like "YOUR" game?

answered Mar 26, 2011 at 23:20

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How should I calculate world and projection matrices in this scenario?

answered Oct 17, 2011 at 22:08

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Why use this equation to get a percentage?

answered Jul 23, 2012 at 14:12

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Learning Java for game development

answered Jul 29, 2011 at 16:34

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How to balance a ball on a rotating plane?

answered May 19, 2011 at 0:16

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Efficient way of detecting a touched object in a game?

answered Jul 28, 2011 at 23:18

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XNA Platformer Screen Collision

answered Mar 13, 2012 at 0:01

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For loop optimisation

answered May 15, 2013 at 2:07

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Debugging tips?

answered Sep 12, 2011 at 3:26

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Ideas for extending tic-tac-toe game?

answered Mar 26, 2011 at 23:24

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XNA beginner - can't display cannon in 2D tutorial

answered Jun 6, 2011 at 23:19

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What AI for a resource management + combat?

answered Jun 25, 2011 at 2:27

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How do I use D3DXVec3Normalize()?

answered Oct 16, 2011 at 13:54

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When/how to use GameService, GameComponent, Initialize()?

answered Sep 2, 2011 at 1:33

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Is it possible to calculate or mathematically prove if a game is balanced / fair?

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 13:29

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Calculating and detecting curves

answered Mar 9, 2011 at 4:42

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Keeping rotation between two objects

answered Sep 27, 2012 at 17:49

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Storing and Finding Art Assets

answered Jul 29, 2011 at 14:04

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moving 2D camera

answered May 22, 2011 at 12:39

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Splitting a tetris game apart - where to put time-management?

answered May 2, 2011 at 2:36

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37 Answers

What are atan and atan2 used for in games?

How do I generate projectiles toward the mouse pointer?

How do I go from a general idea to a specific draft of a design?

Problems making my basketball bounce around horizontally

Moving a sprite in XNA/C#, using vectors

Stuck in Wall after rectangle bounding box collision

Mouse location is off due to camera

I want to get rid of my make-everything-static-and-global design pattern, but how?

Angle of Reflection

How do I detect the direction of 2D rectangular object collisions?

What was the game project that felt like "YOUR" game?

How should I calculate world and projection matrices in this scenario?

Why use this equation to get a percentage?

Learning Java for game development

How to balance a ball on a rotating plane?

Efficient way of detecting a touched object in a game?

XNA Platformer Screen Collision

For loop optimisation

Debugging tips?

Ideas for extending tic-tac-toe game?

XNA beginner - can't display cannon in 2D tutorial

What AI for a resource management + combat?

How do I use D3DXVec3Normalize()?

When/how to use GameService, GameComponent, Initialize()?

Is it possible to calculate or mathematically prove if a game is balanced / fair?

Calculating and detecting curves

Keeping rotation between two objects

Storing and Finding Art Assets

moving 2D camera

Splitting a tetris game apart - where to put time-management?