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Which 2011 - 2012 laptops are great for Game Development [closed]

Criteria: I need a Windows 7 laptop with the specifications of about 8 to 16GB's of ram , The newest ATI or Nvidia graphics card, at least 500 GB's of storage space, and the processor needs to be a ...
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Android pong clone, having trouble getting the paddle to stop at the screen edge

Well, I'm obviously very new to game dev and android. I've got a ball bouncing around (successfully detecting screen edge collision so that the bitmap stays within screen) and a paddle that the user ...
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Can you make a 3d game in eclipse java? [closed]

Hello can you make a 3d game like minecraft using java?
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3D Location Handling

I am thinking about making a simulator type game that will involve having lots of small objects in a 3D space. What is the typical solution for handling these objects? The first thing that comes to ...
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programming light sources in java

I was making a game and I wanted to program light sources but I don't know how to. every where I search it comes up with lightweight java. Can any one offer any help. Its a birds eye view mmorpg. Can ...
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Efficient 2d Java Line of Sight for a lot of entities?

My problem today is this: I have many civilians going around, they are classes stored by an arraylist. The idea is when they see another civilian panic, they'll start to panic and it will spread. ...
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Question on methods in Object Oriented Programming [closed]

I’m learning Java at the minute (first language), and as a project I’m looking at developing a simple puzzle game. My question relates to the methods within a class. I have my Block type class; it ...
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Killer Game Programming [Java 3D] outdated?

I'm thinking of picking up the book Killer Game Programming by Andrew Davidson, but its pretty old now. I know Java, and I've been messing with jMonkeyEngine for a few days now, but I'm curious to see ...
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Effective methods to continuously update movement in a tower defense game?

We are four guys making a Tower Defense game as a project in first grade on a university. The game is going to be really simple! Three different towers Three different monsters One map (maybe add ...
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Java game in a day or two

We are three people who are going to make a simple game in Java as a school project (University, first year). The game has to be object oriented. We don't have much time, 10-20 hours tops. None of us ...
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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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Arc'd jumping method?

Okay, so I'm making a platformer, and I wanna know how I can make a arc'd jump easily. Like what Mario does in super Mario Bros 1. Any ideas on a simple way to accomplish this?