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Paylines and Pay dots in Slot Game
I'm working on a HTML5 slot game and completely stuck on the pay lines and the dots that produce the lines from 1 end to the other.
Can someone tell me what's the logic behind generating random ...
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Powerup Best practices [duplicate]
In a turn based game each player has a set of properties, e.g attack, defence, speed and these can all be used to work out who should go first and how much damage should be dealt. That all works fine, ...
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Game design and SoC
I've been working on a little game for the last few months, trying to approach it as a software engineer and employ best patterns and practices in my coding. I have gotten to the point where I have to ...
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Efficient Algorithm for Recording gameplay's objects positions
So, I have a game idea in mind, and for that I need to record the game around the player. I'me not talking about recording it as video, but rather recording the scene objects, and their positions ...
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Collision Detection Game Design and Architecture
I've reading some articles about collision detection. My question here is about ideas on the design for it.
Baically I have a C++ game that has a main loop with entities with an update method. Based ...
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What technologies are used for Game development now days? [closed]
Whenever I ask a question about game development in an online forum I always get suggestions like learning line drawing algorithms, bit level image manipulation and video decompression etc.
However ...
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Best practices in Game architechture design [closed]
I have to create a game using Java. It is a simple game with a mix of rules from Texas Hold'em and Scrabble. The purpose of this project is to cover all software engineering practices. I have some ...
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Handling Latency in Multiplayer Shoot-em-ups
I had an idea for an architecture, and I was wondering if anyone has implemented something like this or has used AWS or some other service to help?
I thought about using NodeJS + SocketIO to handle ...
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Writing a dynamic achievement system without hardcoding rules into the application
I really enjoyed the solution provided here for groundwork on writing an achievement framework. The problem I have is I have game designers that would like to be able to insert achievements into a CMS ...
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Performance/architectural implications of calling SpriteBatch.Begin/End in many different places?
I notice some code samples only call SpriteBatch.Begin and SpriteBatch.End in the game's main draw method and then draw everything within that method through direct SpriteBatch.Draw calls or indirect ...
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Implementing Power-Ups in a game
I'm making an Arkanoid or Brick Breaker game, but I got confused when I wanted to implement power-ups. The idea is that when you destroy a brick, a powerup-block falls down, and if you catch it you'll ...
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Is my StatisticManager idea overkill?
I'm writing a shmup and I'm working on implementing things like level design and achievements. I have a trigger system that I've implemented which allows me to do basic things and can assist the basic ...
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Implementing Object Composition
I'm trying to structure my game object classes similar to how it is done in this article. One way to implement this strategy is discussed in this StackOverflow question.
Following the strategy ...
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I need an enemy spawning algorithm for a 2D tower defense
I need an enemies spawning algorithm for a 2D tower defense game. I have 4 maps, each has 4 stages and each stage has 40 rounds. I need to create an algorithm which will instantiate waves, increase ...
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Why large builder classes rather than separate clases in component-based entity systems?
I was reading about component-based entity systems and I was wondering why there is usually a large EntityBuilder class with methods like CreatePlayer(), CreateEnemySpaceship(), and CreatePowerup(), ...
