Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs in a game, thus making it behave as expected.

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Android Live Testing

I am making a game for android and in it I am using sensors which are not available in the emulator. At the moment I am connecting my device and transferring the apk, then installing to test but that ...
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Velocity deacceleration working incorrectly

Basicly, I've tried to code velocity into my game, which works sort of. The deaccelaration works sort of, but not correctly. The problem is, that the positive values, decreases just fine and dandy to ...
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SFML programs fails to debug with glslDevil

I'm testing the glslDevil debugger with a simple (and working) SFML application in Linux + NVidia. But it always fails in the window creation step: W! Program Start | glXGetConfig(0x86a50b0, ...
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How can I show information from a variety of sources in my debug menu?

I'm creating a debug menu, and I want to be able to show a lot of information (variables) on that menu. This information will come from a lot of classes (instances). How can I show a lot of ...
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Bullet physics debug drawing not working

Background I am following on from this question, which isn't answered yet. Basically I have a cube and a UVSphere in my scene, with UVSphere on the top of the cube without touching the cube. Both ...
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Displaying performance data per engine subsystem

Our game (Android based) traces how long it takes to do the world logic updates, and how long it takes to a render a frame to the device screen. These traces are collected every frame, and displayed ...
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Is it possible to show vertex information in tables in VS2012 like in PIX?

In PIX I was able to watch the objects' vertex data at different stages in tables, like before vertex shader, between vertex and pixel shaders, and so on. Can you see this in Visual Studio 2012 ...
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Android emulator with acceleration and gyroscope simulation

Is there an Android emulator that is compatible with eclipse that can simulate acceleration and tilting of a mobile device?
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Help me debug my 3-d collision code [closed]

I have been havaing a problem doing 3-d collision in a game i have been trying to make for several weeks now. What i am trying to do is prevent a PlayerModel object from colliding with Obstacle(cube) ...
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Why does my sprite animation sometimes runs faster? [closed]

I don't know why each time I call the Update_Animation function, my sprite animation runs faster. Is it caused by gameTime? How to fix it? Here's the relevant code: class Character { // ...
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Perlin Noise for game terrain; math error (unexpected breaks in terrain (3D grid))

So, I'm learning how to generate terrain using Perlin Noise, and I came across this code: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4753055/perlin-noise-generation-for-terrain/4753123#4753123 PerlinNoise.h ...
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How do I debug two android devices simultaneously in Eclipse?

I have a multiplayer game which should be tested on two devices at the same time, if possible, with debugging. Can eclipse do this? If so, how?
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Limited Screen Switching Count Memory Issue

When making my simple app for revisions to update the latest changes, I test it first between the device (Google Nexus 7) and desktop using Eclipse IDE. I made eleven screens for the game in terms of ...
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Curious Transparent Holes Render Artifact

So I'm trying to implement "smooth" terrain in my block engine by giving each surface block a heightmap. Basically, what I do to generate these "heightmaps" for each block is I generate the heights ...
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Object oriented approach to debug mode

I'd like to introduce a way to turn off/on debug messages and in-game tooling (tweak menus, for example) without non-game related branches, e.g: if(DEBUG_MODE) { // show tweak menu // some ...

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