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Effective methods to continuously update movement in a tower defense game?
We are four guys making a Tower Defense game as a project in first grade on a university. The game is going to be really simple!
Three different towers
Three different monsters
One map (maybe add ...
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Java 2D game programming: Different approaches to make a game loop
I am new to Java game programming, but the more I read the more I'm confused, because I've seen several different approaches to make a game loop:
1. The standard approach, that uses the Timer class ...
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Game Clock Precision
I'm reading a fantastic article about game timer precision and here is a quote about 2/3 of the way into the article:
If you start your game clock at about 4 billion (more precisely 2^32,
or any ...
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Thread runs faster on a faster processor… how to control Thread speed
I have a thread that uses TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(5);
Problem is when I load my app on a faster phone say with a snapdragon, it runs at lightning speed.
Is there a way to control this speed so ...
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Game resource timers - general implementation
I'm interested in understanding how resource generation timers work on many of the mmorts type games out there. I can't wrap my head exactly around how the timers are synched with servers, especially ...
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Game Loop Problem - Growth and Recharge as Integer Values
I have a question about game loops. I understand that you shouldn't have a static loop, say 100ms and set something's speed to 1px/frame so it moves 10px/sec. You should have a speed and multiple that ...
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Execute code at specific intervals, only once?
I am having an issue with XNA, where I want to execute some code in my Update method, but only at a given interval, and only once. I would like to avoid booleans to check if I've already called it ...
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Creating the concept of Time
So I've reached the point in my exploration of gaming where I'd like to impliment the concept of time into my little demo I've been building.
What are some common methodologies for creating the ...
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Playing a death anim on an enemy that I want to remove
I've been trying to find a tutorial on how to best make animations in Android. I already have some animations for my enemies and my character that are controlled by rectangles and changing ...
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Time critical events based on framerate
Problem Description
Basically, I've made a "programming game" in which I've made my own scripting language. It is a completely standard Lunar Lander game, though instead of directly controlling the ...
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Game programming and quantity of timers
I've made a simple 2D game engine using C# and DirectX and it's fully functional for the demo I made to test it. I have a Timer object that uses QueryPerformanceCounter and I don't know what's the ...
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Determine animation frame from interval
I have an array of sprites that are displayed in-order to make an animation. There is code in an update loop that has access to a value 'time' indicating how far along the animation is. Time is a ...
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Checkpoints in a racing game?
The game would be a race from A to B through several checkpoints. I think there are two approaches for the concept of time.
The game starts with some time and player has to make it to the finish ...
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C# Timers for game development
I want to find out the best way of creating time based events in games. Lets talk for example about Texas Holdem Poker. Server can handle thousands of tables and in every table we have timers: turn ...
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Android Java: Way to effectively pause system time while debugging?
In my project, I call nanoTime and use that to get a deltaTime which I pass to my entities and animations.
However, while debugging (for example, stepping through my code), the system time on my ...
