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Manager game questions

(Sorry about the bad title, it's the best I could come up with) I've been planning a gladiator manager game for a while now. Something similar to Blood Bowl (or Football Manager, only with fighting ...
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Kinematics of a die roll?

I'm working on a simple 3D game. In the game, sometimes the players have to roll die (a D8 to be exact). I wish to represent the rolling die with a 3D model, and I'd like to animate it in 3D space as ...
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(real) 3d map rendering in wpf without an engine - how to handle the map data?

I'm just doing some research before embarking on rendering a 3D map inside a wpf app. I've never delved into 3D before, and hence the question.. I have map data (in several formats, and many files) ...
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What's a good way to handle game screen management in WPF?

What would be the preferred way of handling game screens in WPF (conforming to MVVM)? I'm not asking about game states but the actual mechanics of presenting various screens. Do I implement screens ...
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What is the best practice to resize game views-assets in WPF/silverlight?

I am working on simple game using WPF/C#, and I am wondering what is the best practice to resize the game (views, assets…) when user re-sizes the game window? Is it good practice to use the ViewBox ...
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WPF & C# - Game Overlay + Streaming

Greetings I'm in the process of making a Scoreboard for a game (Starcraft II). This scoreboard is being made as a WPF Application with a C# code-behind. I already have a version which works for 90% ...
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Am I hurting myself by not knowing C++ for game design?

Right now, I feel I am strong in both Java a C#. (Not much of a leap from one to the other really). While I don't expect a game designer/programmer is an attainable goal early on in my career, This ...
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How to use XNA in WPF?

How can I render some graphics using XNA to a widget/control in a WPF app? Specifically, I don't need any WPF controls inside the XNA graphics window, I just want to put some controls around it for a ...
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Can a standalone WPF application create an interface that looks like a Flash interface?

It seems like WPF was created as the application answer to Adobe's Flash. Silverlight is used for creating web pages. But, can that same functionality be pulled into a standalone WPF application. ...
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Web site for XAML snippet sharing?

I am making a game with WPF and C#, and I frequently am in need of artwork for it. Some things could be easily shared, such as explosion animations, exhaust plumes, etc. I was wondering if there are ...
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How do I render my own DirectX Stuff to a full screen WPF's DirectX surface?

Basically Danny Varod seems to know as he posted it as an answer to this question: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/892/display-a-message-box-over-a-full-screen-directx-application I ...