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How to debug easily an 2D arcade game?
I am trying to learn pygame.
In order to do that, I have downloaded one of their examples :
http://rpg-world.googlecode.com/files/rpg-world-src-0.93.tar.gz
And started to run it in debug mode.
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How to debug pyglet/opengl bus errors
I'm using pyglet for game development, and sometimes encounter "bus errors". They are not consistently repeatable, and whenever I try to do simple debugging (eg move/remove variables, etc), the errors ...
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Why might my Object Attributes become linked after refactoring?
As part of a game design class I'm taking this semester, I'm developing the basics of a game engine. I shared what I had in the GameDev chatroom, earlier, and everything was working as expected.
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Debugging tips?
I'm new to games programming and I'm working on a C#/XNA project.
Something I'm spending a lot of time on is debugging. Obviously as games run in a loop finding the exact iteration that a bad ...
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Under what circumstances will a PIX 'Render' be different to the actual 'render'?
I am trying to implement dual-pass alpha sorting using Ogre material scripts, as part of my debugging attempts I want to compare two PIX captures, but when I attempt to debug a pixel in PIX, ...
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Scrolling Box2D DebugDraw
I'm developing a game using Box2D (javascript implementation - Box2DWeb), and I would like to know how I can pan the debug draw. I know the usual answer is - don't use debug draw, it's just for ...
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How can I automate high-level user interactions to test correctness of my game?
I am trying to automatically simulate the game experience in my programming game. I think Expect is the way to do it because it creates its own tty for the process, becoming independent process of the ...
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How could an XNA game close with no exception being thrown?
I've been messing with my game's network code recently (TCP/UDP sockets) and my game keeps shutting down with no exceptions being thrown at all.
It runs fine until the disconnection of a client, so I ...
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Particle and Physics problem
This was originally a forum post so I hope you guys don't mind it being 2 questions in one.
I am making a game and I got some basic physics implemented. I have 2 problems, 1 with particles being ...
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Debugging/Logging Techniques for End Users
I searched a bit, but didn't find anything particularly pertinent to my problem - so please do excuse me if I missed something!
A few months back I inherited the source to a fairly-popular indie game ...
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Atmospheric Scattering
I'm trying to implement atmospheric scattering based on Sean O`Neil algorithm that was published in GPU Gems 2. But I have some trouble getting the shader to work. My latest attempts resulted in: ...
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How can I debug shader programs?
I'm in the process of debugging GLSL vertex shaders and I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing it wrong.
In general I have two strategies to make up for the lack of tracing
I stuff values into a ...
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What is the best way to debug and profile a web application on an iPod in Mobile Safari?
I've built a web app that makes heavy use of JavaScript and HTML5 canvas. It's easy to debug in Chrome, but on a mobile device the developer tools are much less robust. Is there a tool or technique ...
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How do you get useful data from playtesters?
There are a few types of feedback you can get from playtesters, and I wonder how to best gather data for each of them...
Crash Reports. When my C++ game crashes while someone is playing it, how do I ...
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Real-time Debugging Techniques
There's nothing quite like the routine of tweaking a variable, compiling code that takes a few minutes, executing the code, realizing that your tweak was in the wrong direction and repeating the ...
