Engine-design related questions. How code is structured.
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Game Messaging System Design
I'm making a simple game, and have decided to try to implement a messaging system.
The system basically looks like this:
Entity generates message -> message is posted to global message queue -> ...
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Music Rhythm Game Difficulty Question
I have curious question about music rhythm based genre while I'm making a code for the game. Is it really better if I set a random pattern encountered on every music played or there is a specific ...
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Dynamic Components
I am attempting to design a component-based architecture that allows Components to be dynamically enabled and disabled, much like the system employed by Unity3D. For example, all Components are ...
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Pros and cons of using dlls
I wonder about create every game engine module (render, input, sound, etc...) into dlls (renderer.dll, input.dll, etc...). What are pros and cons in your opinion of divide game into set of dlls ? I ...
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Is 2 lines of push/pop code for each pre-draw-state too many?
I'm trying to simplify vector graphics management in XNA; currently by incorporating state preservation. 2X lines of push/pop code for X states feels like too many, and it just feels wrong to have 2 ...
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C++ Game Engine Book/Tutorial/Anything recent? [closed]
Before I get flamed, please understand that I have been looking for a while now. Yes, I have found a good amount of game engine tutorials...except filled with errors, out of date syntax, missing ...
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Entity System and rendering
Okey, what I know so far;
The entity contains a component(data-storage) which holds information like;
- Texture/sprite
- Shader
- etc
And then I have a renderer system which draws all this. But ...
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Managing different utility classes between engine and libraries
I'm currently in updating some engine code (which does not work, so it is more like creating a engine).
I've decided to swap over to SFML (instead of my own crappy renderer, window manager, and ...
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2D scene graph not transforming relative to parent
I am currently in the process of coding my own 2D Scene graph, which is basically a port of flash's render engine.
The problem I have right now is my rendering doesn't seem to be working properly. ...
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Programming Paradigm for Games [closed]
Which programming paradigm resembles or best suits the Game design or game engine programming?
by paradigm I mean the Imperative, Object oriented, Functional, etc. I came to know that functional ...
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Designing a “Grid” like object that contains game objects
I am working on a 2D game, where there's a game "board" on which other game objects are placed.
This this is 2D, my starting point was to design a class that will internally use a 2d array for the ...
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Best practice for designing a risk-style board game
I'm just trying to figure out how to set up the code for a game like risk...
I would like it to be extensible, so that I can have multiple maps (ie- World, North America, Eurasia, Africa) so ...
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Techniques for separating game model from presentation
I am creating a simple 2D game using XNA.
The elements that make up the game world are what i refer to as the "model".
For instance, in a board game, i would have a GameBoard class that stores ...
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How to code UI / HUD in Entity System?
I think I already got the idea of the Entity System inspired by Adam Martin (t-machine). I want to start using this for my next project.
I already know the basic of Entity, Components, and Systems. ...
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Adding sub-entities to existing entities. Should it be done in the Entity and Component classes?
I'm in a situation where a player can be given the control of small parts of an entity (i.e. Left missile battery). Therefore I started implementing sub entities as follow.
Entities are Objects with ...
