Tagged Questions
A 2D rendering of an object in space.
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How do character/object interaction animations work in isometric games?
I am planning an isometric business simulation game where the player sees an office with the usual furniture such as desks, whiteboards etc.
Characters (Staff/NPC's) within the game should interact ...
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Cocos2D Accelerometer Z axis
I am making a 2D scroller game where the player controls an airplane via the accelerometer I would like to know if it is possible to scale in and to scale out the sprite/airplane using the ...
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Sprite Animation Software That Works With Cocos2D
So the title basically says it all. I'm looking for software that would help me to create sprite animations that I could use with cocos2d by allowing me to pose a a sprite and the software create ...
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Rendering shadow sprites in cocos2d-x
I am writing a 2D game with cocos2d-x. I want to put a "shadow" sprite on a background sprite using the equation:
MAX(0, Cd*1 - Cs*S)
where Cd is the destination color (that is, a background ...
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How to “swing” bounding box and update collision for sprite swinging a weapon?
I have a simple question about sprite swinging weapons. I am making an RPG and would like something other than stabby-swords, so why not swinging swords?
I have a bounding rectangle for them, and the ...
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How to create a 2D region where sprites are automatically wrapped?
Edit
Finally managed to get this to work, after two separate questions! Here's a video demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7e0jegvs0
Will write an article about it later when I have a ...
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How to move a 2d sprite to a target location while avoiding obstacles?
How can I get a 2d sprite to move to a position clicked on the screen, without bumping into other objects? I'm programming in java using the android API library
I have created a surface view and ...
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Player moving up, is he jumping or climbing?
In a 2D physics-based platformer game that has ladders in it, how do you determine whether the player moving up is caused by a jump or him climbing a ladder, such that you know what animation to play? ...
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I need Tutorial on animating sprites for non developers
I need a very detailed website, tutorial or article that explains how to design animation sprites for iPhone games. Most preferably the article should be suitable for people with no coding ...
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Can Xcode be used to create very simple games?
I am brand new to Xcode, and I am a brand new Objective-C programmer.
I was wondering if it is possible to create simple mac games with Xcode. If it's not possible, could you recommend me some good, ...
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How do I disable texture filtering for sprite scaling in XNA 4.0?
I have a sprite that I'm trying to scale up in XNA, but XNA is applying some sort of texture filtering that smooths it and makes it look ugly. I'd like it to just do pixel doubling instead of ...
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Is there a technique to creating a “black hole” background in XNA?
I'm creating application in XNA 4.0 and am trying to create a specialized background.
I'm familiar with the creation of a parallax scrolling background but I'd like to create a background image that ...
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Is character movement with an animated sprite controlled by the animation itself or moved manually?
How is a walking animation of a given character designed? I can see two possible ways:
The first way is to draw each frame of the animation such that, if the frames are displayed at position (0,0), ...
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Are there any good 2D fighting game engines that can be used to make a commercial product?
I'm looking for a good 2D fighting game engine based on sprites. I really dont care much about which language that it is programmed in. Specifically I'm looking for an engine I can use for a game I ...
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Quarter turn sprite sheets?
I'm having trouble finding sprite sheets that have the characters turn in 8th movements, so that you can see back, front, left, right, and in between. What would be a good term to search for when ...
