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How to sync clocks over networking for game development?

I'm writing a game that has a lot of time based aspects. I use time to help estimate player positions when the network stalls and packets aren't going through (and the time between packet's being ...
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Spoiled by Python convenience- and productivity-wise, spoiled by C++ speed-wise. Now unhappy with both [closed]

I'm currenetly struggling with choosing how to proceed as a programmer. I mainly programmed games and would like to continue. And for about 5 years or so I just used C++ and OpenGL, so I spent a lot ...
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Notify players every x seconds in a multiplayer game

I'm working on a realtime multiplayer game using Django and gevent-socketio, I'm facing some issues: I need to send an update of the game state to connected players every X seconds (~4 seconds), so ...
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Where to start in developing a game engine as a web app

I have to create a web application, preferably I would host that on Google App Engine. it is a multiplayer game, So it needs to be interactive. I am only familiar with C/C++ coding, and have started ...
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What is the best way to plot 3D/2D plots with real time data? [closed]

First of all, I like to use Python, because it is easy to work with. I am not a programmer, so I prefer anything that is easy to use and understand. I understand that it might be faster to program 3D ...
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How can I shift from PHP to Python? [closed]

I am a website developer, and I am proficient in PHP, but I want to shift into game and software development using Python. Is such a transition easy? What are the common pitfalls one should look out ...