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How to implement a stack of game states in C++

I'm new to C++ and as a college proyect I'm building a 2D platformer with some classmates, I recently read that it's a good idea to have a stack of gamestates instead of a single global variable with ...
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How do I duplicate a Box2d simulation, mid-simulation?

I want to serialize the state mid-game, send it over the network to an identical computer (same CPU, same OS, same binary), load it there, and have the two games run in tandem doing the exact same ...
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How do I persist the states of distant objects?

How would one manage the state of static living things like trees in a large sandbox world? Trees in Minecraft, for example: They grow even when the player is far away. One way is to save them with a ...
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Saving an interface instance into a Bundle

All I've have an interface that allows me to switch between different scenes in my Android game. When the home key is pressed, I am saving all of my states (score, sprite positions etc) into a ...
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Game state management?

I'm running in circles here trying to figure out how to implement game states! Many of the articles I have read use an abstract class that game states inherit, and another "manager" class that ...
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How to make a “GUI In Game”?

My game is very GUI based, the way how it works is that I have a GUI class, which contains the basic GUI elements, a parent GUI object, and a copy of the main game's class object. The game starts out ...
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How can I update Display settings from an Options screen without restarting?

I'm currently creating a 2D RPG in C++11 with Allegro 5 and boost. My goal is to somehow update my game settings when an option is changed in the Options Menu. I don't want to force the user to ...