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Does my 2D OpenGL renderer need optimized?

I've started a game engine for learning purposes. I have successfully gotten an opengl renderer working and I can draw textures of varying sizes to the screen. The way I have done this is by creating ...
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How to work with two layers or more in cocos2d?

I want to make a game in cocos2d. I don't know too much about it. My question is related to communication between two layers or more. For instance, let's say I want a layer with a scrolling road and ...
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Computer generated 2d graphics for games - how to get started

I've seen a lot of nice 2d games recently, like Geometry wars that have really nice computer generated graphics. I would like to know how is it done so game looks really nice even if it is composed ...
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Drawing particles as a smooth blob

I'm new to game/graphics development and I'm playing around with particles (in 2D). I want to draw particles close to each other as a blob, just as liquid/water. I do not want to draw big circles ...
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OpenGL 2 and back vs 3 and forward: What are the key differences for 2D graphics?

OpenGL contexts before and after OpenGL 3.0 are rather different. So far I've really only worked with buffers on either side anyway, I do know the most notable difference is lack of Immediate Mode. ...
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Real time shadow casting in a 2D isometric game

I'm writing a small 2d isometric engine in C++ and I'm trying to implement real time shadow casting. I followed a simple approach described on this page and here is the result (light is located at the ...
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Rendering 2D grass

My current project, using Java and OpenGL, has a fairly standard overhead tilemap in the style of the Zelda games. I'd really like to add "real" grass to the grass tiles so that there are actually ...
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Creating an electricity/lighting/tesla coil effect in a 2D XNA game?

I'd like to create beams of electricity between two points very similar to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJ8-56L3Lc. The effect is so dynamic, with varying lengths and pseudo-random ...
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2D graphics - why use spritesheets?

I have seen many examples of how to render sprites from a spritesheet but I havent grasped why it is the most common way of dealing with sprites in 2d games. I have started out with 2d sprite ...
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Drawing very large slowly rotating planets

I'd like to draw very large (~500 px) graphics of planets slowly rotating. These graphics are meant to impress. What's the best way of doing this? I don't have experience with any particular 3D ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: Setting up 2D Projection

This article describes in general, how to draw sharp OpenGL 2D graphics, using fixed function pipeline. http://basic4gl.wikispaces.com/2D+Drawing+in+OpenGL Because OpenGL ES 2.0 has some ES 1.x ...