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Are there methods faster than Strings for sending a sprite's state over UDP?

I'm programming a 2.5D networked game in Java. The networking works like this right now: Create new networked sprite object at the client. Send it to the server. Server distributes and saves it. ...
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1answer
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How to make this game loop deterministic

I am using the following game loop for my pacman clone: long prevTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); while (running) { long curTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); float ...
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4answers
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Efficient 2d Java Line of Sight for a lot of entities?

My problem today is this: I have many civilians going around, they are classes stored by an arraylist. The idea is when they see another civilian panic, they'll start to panic and it will spread. ...
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2answers
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How to loop over a part of an ogg vorbis stream?

I'm successfully streaming ogg vorbis data to openAL with the Java library JOrbis, but now I want to loop over a part of this stream, e.g from 30" to 1'30". I thought that at the end of the loop, I ...