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Making up everything from single pixels
I recently saw a game which looked a bit like minecraft, but it was a RPG.
The enemies in this game consist completely of voxels and if they die, they collaps and every single voxels falls down, ...
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UML Class Diagrams for 2D platformer Games? [closed]
I have to develop a small arcade game in C++ for a college assignment using a 2D Game Engine my teacher coded. What would be the best way to make a UML class diagram for it? It's very basic stuff but ...
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Application design for specific points on image
Hi guys I am starting a simple hobby app in Unity, its a 2D app, which have some alphabets like A,B,C..Z (images) . There ll be specific paths where user touch one by one to complete drawing the ...
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Implementing a camera / viewport to a 2D game
What is the most practical way to implement camera/viewport to a 2D-game?
I've read, that I should store the object world position instead of position relative to the screen?
Current situation:
I ...
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Is there an isometric 2d game that doesn't use tilemapping? [closed]
Is there an isometric 2d game that doesn't use tilemapping?
I want to do this in tilemap but the client doesn't want to use it (since it's easier to design maps without using tiles).
I've tried to ...
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The best way to structure/design game code [closed]
My question is quite broad and related to the 2D game code design/architecture/structure.
Usually the main game consists of the main loop where you update & render your world states.
However, ...
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1answer
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How can I cleanly and elegantly handle data and dependancies between classes
I'm working on 2d topdown game in SFML 2, and need to find an elegant way in which everything will work and fit together.
Allow me to explain. I have a number of classes that inherit from an abstract ...
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2answers
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Should a 4x game use one class per planet type?
I'm try to make a small 4x game for my own educational purposes.
Currently I have interfaces like IStarSystem which contains a list of IPlanets. My next step was to make classes implementing those ...
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Why don't more games use vector art?
It would seem to me that vector art is more efficient in terms of resources/scalability; however, in most cases I have seen artists using bitmap/rasterized art. Is this a limitation put on the artists ...
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Turn-based JRPG battle system architecture resources
The past months I've been busy programming a 2D JRPG (Japanese-style RPG) in C++ using the SDL library. The exploration mode is more or less done. Now I'm tackling the battle mode.
I have been unable ...
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2d, Top-down map with different levels
So, I'm creating a 2d, top down, sprite based (tiled) game, and right now I'm working on maps (well, a map editor at the moment, but it will be creating my maps, so basically the same thing).
The ...
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Could I be going crazy with Event Handlers? Am I going the “wrong way” with my design?
I guess I've decided that I really like event handlers. I may be suffering a bit from analysis paralysis, but I'm concerned about making my design unwieldy or running into some other unforeseen ...
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4answers
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How do you organize your game files and classes? [closed]
Although it isn't necessary to exclude things like graphics and audio packages, I'm most interested in the organization of the folders for classes that deal with AI and game state. I'm thinking ...
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2answers
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XNA: Questions regarding games architecture
So I've finally got around to playing around with XNA and have been toying around with making a 2D game (I have a bunch of art assets from a friend who developed it on iOS)
A lot of things seem to be ...
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Game Classes design
I'm trying to create a simple 2D sprite game. The problem I'm having now is how to design my game. I was thinking of using a Sprite class that will be my base class for all the different types of ...
