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Handling Block Collisions

The title isn't great, but let me try and explain my problem. I'm working on a little game at the moment the gist of which is that you're an entity in this 2-D world and you have to dodge obstacles. ...
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Help me please to choose proper path-finding algorithm

I am new to game development and just want to ask for advice. I need to know which path-finding algoritm will be suitable for my scenario: Units - any shape. But in most cases rectangles of ...
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Randomly spawning objects so they don't intersect [duplicate]

I've got this code for spawning enemy objects in random places: for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++){ enemyObject = new Enemy((r.nextInt(Main.WINDOW_WIDTH), r.nextInt(Main.WINDOW_HEIGHT)); } The ...
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Java Slick2d collision feedback [closed]

I'm trying to build a collision response ( it uses vectors2f from slick2d ) so that enemies don't overlap on each other so basicly what I'm doing right now is, I loop trough all enemies in array ...
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How do I stop overlapping shapes when collision detected in AndEngine?

I am making a very simple demo in AndEngine in which I have three rectangles: rect1, rect2 and rect3 in an ArrayList. I register onAreaTouch as follows: @Override public boolean ...
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Dynamic obstacles avoidance in navigation mesh system

I've built my path finding system with unreal engine, somehow the path finding part works just fine while i can't find a proper way to solve dynamic obstacles avoidance problem. My characters are ...
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How can I use Rectangle.Intersect() to resolve collisions in XNA?

I have a 2D game written in XNA, and I've been trying to fine-tune my collision resolution. All of my game objects are squares, which means detecting a collision is easy - use the position and the ...
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How to make it so units don't stack up in one location? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a simple way to stop enemies standing in the same spot? So I'm making a game in AS3, it's a strategy DotA-like game (for flash game equivalent, there's UDE) so ...
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How to resolve collisions of compound shapes using SAT?

SAT is a decent way to determine collisions between arbitrary convex polygons. You'll even get the vector that is needed to resolve a collision. To resolve collisions between complex (non-convex) ...
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pathfinding with obstacles in a Warcraft 3 like game

Consider A* searching on a tile based map. A straight forward code would be: If there is an unit inside that cell, then it is unreachable, this is ok. But there is map resolution issue. When I look ...
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Algorithm for spreading labels in a visually appealing and intuitive way

Short version Is there a design pattern for distributing vehicle labels in a non-overlapping fashion, placing them as close as possible to the vehicle they refer to? If not, is any of the method I ...