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Handling game states for Android
Currently developing a game for Android. I went through a tutorial to get sprites, loop, etc. up and running, and it all works fine. The way it is currently set up is that Main creates a canvas, the ...
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Android threads trouble wrapping my head around design
I am having trouble wrapping my head around game design. On the android platform, I have an activity and set its content view with a custom surface view. The custom surface view acts as my panel and I ...
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Android game scrolling background
I'm just trying to figure out the best approach for running a scolling background on an android device. The method I have so far.... its pretty laggy. I use threads, which I believe is not the best ...
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Android differences (Dalvik+Java vs Old School C++)
Developing in Android is going to be different for me, having spent the last 10 years coding games in C++. What's the main differences / pitfalls / bottlenecks to developing for the Android? My big ...
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Which Side Was Hit?
I am working on an Android game and I have two objects A and B (both rectangles) and when they collide I simply want to know which side of B was hit. I have detected the collision fine, but I am ...
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In a component/entity system, what's the correct way to implement entity-specific components?
I'm trying to create a basic C/E game engine for Android, and I'm trying to re-create pong as a basic warm-up. I currently have a EntityManager class that contains a list of all the UUIDs for its ...
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Random Sprite Speed
I followed the Rain Catcher tutorial from libGDX and I made some modifications to the code, allowing the rain drops to appear faster. But I cant figure out how to make the raindrops fall at random ...
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Scaling a game view with letterboxes?
I'm creating an Android game and I want everyone who plays it -- no matter the size or shape of their screen -- to see the same 480x800 playfield but, depending on the actual resolution of their ...
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Determine Resulting Angle of Wall Collision
So I have an object moving in a direction towards a fixed horizontal or vertical wall. How do I compute the angle that the object should bounce off at? The object can approach the wall at an arbitrary ...
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Android threads trouble wrapping my head around design [closed]
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Android threads trouble wrapping my head around design
I am having trouble wrapping my head around game design. On the android platform, I have an activity and set its ...
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Should I go with Windows Phone 7 or Try Android?
I already know C# and am familiar with XNA.
So it would make sense to develop for the Windows Phone 7, but would it be worth while to learn Java, get familiar with Android, and instead develop for ...
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Horizontal wrapping with AndEngine
How would one implement the effect of a sprite disappearing on one side of the screen and appearing on the other using AndEngine? Like in Kid Icarus, seen here at around 1:22.
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Android Game Dev: Screen Scaling
This question is very closely related to a previous question of mine:
Scaling a game view with letterboxes?
My game runs at 480x800 right now but when the screen is smaller or bigger than that I ...
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Can one draw a cube using different method/drawing mode?
I've just started learning gamedev (in particular android EGL based) and have ran over a code from Pro Android Games 2 that looks as follows:
/* * Copyright (C) 2007 Google Inc.
* * Licensed ...
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Understanding MotionEvent to implement a virtual DPad and Buttons on Android (Multitouch)
I'm trying to implement a virtual DPad in android, but I'm still very confused about how do I keep track of each trouch point, from the moment it is pressed, till it is released.
In my code, I test ...
