A portable device capable of multiple applications, one of which is a platform for playing games. Mobile phones are the eponymous example of such devices. Distinct from handhelds, which are exclusively or primarily designed for gaming.
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How can I prevent false score reports to global highscore tables?
Browser and mobile games commonly have global highscore tables. It's also common for those tables to contain scores of 2,147,483,647 — where people have figured out the webservice call that ...
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Dynamic Memory Allocation and Memory Management
In an average game, there are hundreds or maybe thousands of objects in the scene.
Is it completely correct to allocate memory for all objects, including gun shots (bullets), dynamically via default ...
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Best solution for multiplayer realtime Android game
I plan to make multiplayer realtime game for Android (2-8 players), and I consider, which solution for multiplayer organization is the best:
Make server on PC, and client on mobile, all communition ...
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Is this the right architecture for our MMORPG mobile game?
These days I am trying to design architecture of a new MMORPG mobile game for my company. This game is similar to Mafia Wars, iMobsters, or RISK. Basic idea is to prepare an army to battle your ...
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Development platform for 2D web and mobile games
Is there a game development platform -- similar to Torque, or Unity -- which can be used to deploy 2D games on the following platforms:
Web
iOs
Android
Xbox Live Arcade (Preferred but not required)
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What's the best phone for game development?
Yeah yeah I know, best is probably a bad way to phrase this. But I need some pros and cons. I need a new phone and if I'm going to get a smartphone and pay all that money, I better get one that I can ...
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3D open source physics engine suitable for mobile platforms (Android and iOS)
I have made some research and found that bullet, ode, newton and some others are open source physics engines that should be portable enough (but I have never tried to comile/use anyone of them on ...
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TCP vs. UDP on mobile platforms? [closed]
I am designing a mobile game, but I don't know much about it.
How do we differentiate HTTP, TCP and UDP in reference to mobile game?
