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Is it essential that I learn Try/Catch and Finally statements for Game Programming, or is it something I can come back to?
Doesn't seem like something that would be an essential part of GAME Programming.
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Pickup another book or submerge into XNA
Completely read Head First C#.
Should I read something else or get personal with XNA from here on? Got links?
Edit: Hobby. Interested in 2D and 2.5D gamedev for personal fun, nothing serious. ...
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Timer not going off
I've got a timer in my game which is supposed to set off a Boolean back to false after a certain amount of time has passed it just doesn't seem to work despite me trying to debug the issue, although ...
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How do i get my tilemap to move at the same speed as my character
I have a little problem in my solution, i'm trying to make a pretty big map for the players to walk around in.
I decided to use a tile-engine, but when I move my character it moves faster than my ...
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1answer
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Mouse location is off due to camera
I'm building a top down shooter but I have a little issue with my camera and mouse.
When I add the camera that I use to my game (see here) my mouse pointer seems to be in the wrong location.
When I ...
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Why is this beat detection code failing to register some beats properly?
I made this SoundAnalyzer class to detect beats in songs:
class SoundAnalyzer
{
public SoundBuffer soundData;
public Sound sound;
public List<double> beatMarkers = new ...
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3answers
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Beat detection and FFT
So I am working on a platformer game which includes music with beat detection. I am currently using a simple if the energy that is stored in the history buffer is smaller then the current energy there ...
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3answers
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Any Programming Languages Recommendations? A Space shooter game that allows two people to play at the same time?
Do you remember a arcade game, that allow two people to versus or play each other? A Galaga/Gradius type game.
Me and a couple of other people I know wanna make a game like this. We want to get some ...
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Does C# have a future in games development?
I recently learned that the MMO Minecraft is powered by Java from a recent interview on CVG.co.uk on a possible collaboration between two former and now competing colleagues. In the interview he ...
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Clickable hex grid in c#.net
I want to create a Windows Form-based adventure game where the player clicks a hex on a static map to bring up their next encounter. I have the map already and plan to scan it and convert it to a .bmp ...
