Top new questions this week:

Peer-to-peer hostless competitive games of chance?

I'm wondering - have any games been ever created that are: peer-to-peer without one peer being designated as host competitive (not cooperative, players play against one another) provably fair (there …

game-mechanics peer-to-peer

asked by ThePiachu 14 votes answered by Sam Hocevar 17 votes

Sound effects system design

I'm creating a RPG/RTS game in Unity. There are a lot of characters and potentially a lot of different environments. I'm fairly confident with the coding part (so this question isn't really tied to …

architecture sound sound-effects

asked by golergka 9 votes answered by michael.bartnett 10 votes

What is the view perspective angle of most 2.5D isometric games

I examined several quite popular games to determine what perspective angle they are using. For the purpose I created a grid that is 45 and 60 degrees isometric viewed and put it onto a screenshot (of …

isometric perspective angles

asked by Martin Asenov 9 votes answered by Sam Hocevar 11 votes

Strategic AI in turnbased games?

I'm interested in how strategic AI engines work, e.g. how to evaluate where to place troops in a turnbased strategy game etc. I do get how goal based AI works, and I guess that is a good approach to …

ai strategy turn-based-strategy

asked by Roger Alsing 8 votes answered by stefann 1 vote

Curious Transparent Holes Render Artifact

So I'm trying to implement "smooth" terrain in my block engine by giving each surface block a heightmap. Basically, what I do to generate these "heightmaps" for each block is I generate the heights …

xna directx shaders voxels debugging

asked by untitled 7 votes answered by Nathan Reed 14 votes

How to handle entity path-finding and movement in a large networked world?

Considering the image above with tiles split into 32x32 boxes, I have an entity which is marked to 'aggro' nearby players that come close to it. I'd like this monster to ideally chase the player (and …

ai networking path-finding movement entity

asked by Vaughan Hilts 6 votes answered by Byte56 8 votes

FPS games: don't they have unrealastic one eyed view? What are the causes?

This question may look immature, but it is all the english I could muster. I have played many fps games, and noticed that the camera perspective is similar to the 'one eyed view' of the surroundings. …

camera first-person-shooter

asked by user73830 5 votes answered by Liosan 5 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Which is better a computer science degree or a Software engineer degree?

I'm asking here so since you all have experience in or around game programming, that's what I want to do, and I’m trying to find as many options as I can before my senior year, which is next year. So …

education

asked by Shadow wolf 1 vote answered by Two pi 3 votes

What are good JS libraries for game dev?

If I decide to write a simple game both text and graphical (2d) what libraries would I use? (Assume we are using a HTML5 compatible browser) The main things I can think of Rendering text on screen …

html5 javascript

asked by acidzombie24 40 votes answered by Ricket 16 votes

Can you answer these?

Catmull Rom Spline - Constant Speed

Given the equations found in the answer here: Determine arc-length of a Catmull-Rom spline How would one A) Apply this to a 3D Catmull-Rom Spline, and B) write A out programmatically (for the math …

3d math algorithm programming curves

asked by GameDesigner 2 votes

Whipping folding rule

You all know whips. I want to create a whipping animation. But not just a simple one. My whip is a collapsed folding rule. So I motion captured me doing the whipping movement and imported that into …

3dsmax physics-engine rigging

asked by Zurechtweiser 5 votes

Percentage of Users Without Data Plan

Based on my question about location-based games without data plan, I'm curious to know if there are any reliable statistics of any sort about smartphone users with and without data plan. (For those …

mobile statistics

asked by ashes999 1 vote