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Design patterns in Game Physics
In the frames of a number crunching compatible programming language (say.. C++), what would be an elegant solution for adding self collision, external collision and integration step (Euler, etc.) ...
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How to avoid the GameManager god object?
I just read an answer to a question about structuring game code. It made me wonder about the ubiquitous GameManager class, and how it often becomes an issue in a production environment. Let me ...
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Software engineering theory for hobbyist developers
In playing around with my hobby projects in various object oriented languages, I have realized that creating good class structure and program architecture is both crucial and not straightforward to ...
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Trophies programming design pattern
What design pattern is best for implementing trophies in a game? I am not a games developer, but is it easy for each player's action to check and update conditions that satisfy 50-100 trophies at any ...
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What are some ways to separate game logic from animations and the draw loop?
I have only previously made flash games, using MovieClips and such to separate out my animations from my game logic. Now I am getting into trying my hand at making a game for Android, but the game ...
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What are windows used for?
I have a very general question: In games, what use does the programming concept of a window have? Or, in other words, why do some game dev libraries offer interfaces through which to create multiple ...
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What are some programming design patterns that are useful in game development? [closed]
I have a few books on Design Patterns, and have read some articles, but cannot intuitively figure out which programming design patterns would be useful in game development.
For example, I have a book ...
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Custom Rule-Based System for Action Recognition in a Game
I want to make objects in a side project interatible with each other. For this, I want to be able to create rules so "Collisions" (Interactions) can be recognised by testing the rules. The rules ...
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Are there cases where globals/singletons are useful in game development?
I know that having global variables or singleton classes creates cases that can be difficult to test/manage and I have been busted in using those patterns in code but often times you gotta ship.
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