The quality, efficiency, and speed of running gameplay as a result of several factors in the design and structure of the game and its architecture.
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Updating physics for animated models
For a new game we have do set up a scene with a minimum of 30 bone animated models.(shooter)
The problem is that the update process for the animated models takes too long.
Thats what I do:
Each ...
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How to deal with large open worlds?
In most games the whole world is small enough to fit into memory, however there are games where this is not the case, how is this archived, how can the game still run fluid even though the world is so ...
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Information about rendering, batches, the graphical card, performance etc. + XNA?
I know the title is a bit vague but it's hard to describe what I'm really looking for, but here goes.
When it comes to CPU rendering, performance is mostly easy to estimate and straightforward, but ...
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Using Event Driven Programming in games, when is it beneficial?
I am doing a refresher on ActionScript 3.
Other than using rudimentary tools like, Event.ENTER_FRAME and using events to receive input from the user's mouse and keyboard, I find that I rarely use ...
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Slow Firefox Javascript Canvas Performance?
As a followup from a previous post, I have been trying to track down some slowdown I am having when drawing a scene using Javascript and the canvas element. I decided to narrow down my focus to a ...
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Performance tracking/monitoring in games
Let's say I have an online game with a downloadable client / browser plugin.
I want to track performance of my software and automatically send summary to the server. Let it be fps, latency, load time, ...
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Javascript Canvas Drawing Efficiency
I have just recently started some experiments with game development in Javascript/HTML5, and so far it has been going pretty well. I have a simple test scene running with some basic input handling, ...
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Implementing fog of war in opengl es 2.0 game
Hi game development community, this is my first question here! ;)
I'm developing a tactics/strategy real time android game and I've been wondering for some time what's the best way to implement an ...
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Will having many timers affect my game performance?
I'm making a game for android, and earlier today I was trying to add some cool stuff to my game. The problem is this thing needs like 5 timers. I build my timers like this:
timer += deltaTime;
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How to check battery usage of an iPhone/Android app?
I think the title says Enough. For example Unity can generate you a report how much CPU/GPU power it's using or how fast it's going to drain device battery, but what about the applications developed ...
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How to use caching to increase render performance?
First of all I am going to cover the basic design of my 2d tile-based engine written with SDL in C++, then I will point out what I am up to and where I need some hints.
Concept of my engine
My ...
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android game performance regarding timers
Im new to the game-dev world and I have a tendancy to over-simplify my code, and sometimes this costs me alot fo memory.
Im using a custom TimerTask that looks like this:
public class Task ...
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How to detect collision in Unity3D without rigid bodies?
The target platform of my game is mobile devices therefore I try to develop it performance oriented. It will be a strategy game so I don't really need physics in it, consequently I did not add ...
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Only apply Advanced Graphics on high FPS Dynamically
I wonder why not prevent lags by only appying advanced optional graphics stuff when the FPS are high at time. So The game could use simpler or even no shaders and skip decorative models some time.
It ...
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Why has the industry switched from C to C++?
First of all i would like to have a real answer, i'm always trying to get more from various sources and articles, and when I read things like C++ is slow because it has virtual functions and because ...
