Game engines are a collection of libraries and tools that provide a framework to create games.
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How to develop a good game project? [on hold]
I have enough experience in both C++ and Java, since I've been working on them a lot. My graduation project is, in my case, a game (I still have almost 8 months remaining). I already took down the ...
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How to test the effectiveness of a game engine?
A few friends and I are working on a home-brewed engine for a selection of games we wish to produce in the future. We're making it to satisfy a few key requirements that we haven't found were properly ...
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Efficient mobile rendering order, given transparent vs. non-transparent objects
I'm interested to know how others would do / have done this.
Part 1. Constraints.
My current renderer is being built to support OpenGL ES 2.0 primarily and so aims for performant mobile as well as ...
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Why Enemy did not get destroy when hit by projectile? ( Unreal Engine4) [on hold]
Why my enemy does not destroy if my projectile hit him but instead he moves little bit to left or oppsite direction where projectile hit him and then continue normal. but i dont want it . i want him ...
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I need persona 4 and devoloping specialists :D [on hold]
I have a team of 4 guys and i am planing to do a persona 4 clone for ios :D and i was wondring what kind of engine should i pick? For an rpg visioal-novel and choices kind of game :0 and also we are ...
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Devoloping a persona clone for apple tv or pc
I am planning on devoloping a persona 4 clone for apple tv and the ios 9'as a whole...
So i was wondering what kind of programs shoud i choose for the devolopment?
And btw it is the first game i ...
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C++ Engine developement [on hold]
I would like to use C++ to make an engine but I'm not fully sure how engines are made. just a little explanation of how engines are normally made would be fine thanks.
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Engine creation [on hold]
Using C++ and its libraries how would somebody create a simple engine just to get started.
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2D Action RPG Engine: Supports Physics scripting/Online [closed]
For a couple years now I've been wanting to develop a 2D Action/RPG game like the oldschool Zelda gameboy series, with a physics tune up.
Question: Is there an existing engine or mod-able game that ...
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Build game without prefered rendering/graphics engine [closed]
What is the best practice to build the game without current decided rendering/graphics engine/framework ?
My project is currently bounded to XNA (data types), but maybe I will decide to go with other ...
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Where should I start? [closed]
I have been looking at game dev my whole life and now grad is just over the horizon and I'm ready to start exploring.
I started learning D but it doesn't seem to be useful for coding games.
I hope to ...
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Invalid GLSL on some machines
I'm writing a game engine using OpenGL 4.3 using gcc 5, mainly to teach myself graphics programming.
Initial development was on my Surface Pro 3 using mingw-w64 and worked like a charm.
I've decided ...
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Resource streaming with job threading system
I am currently researching resource streaming for my current game engine. To add a bit of context, I am doing a contiguous world for a Baulder's Gate style CRPG. So while the camera is usually looking ...
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My Sprite is disappearing when it collides with my floor (libGDX)
I am just starting to build the game "engine" and I am using a sprite drawn in the same position as a rectangle and the two always move together. I have another rectangle which is the floor when the ...
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How do I create a playing field of collapsing bubbles, as in Tsum Tsum?
Tsum Tsum App is a pretty interesting game and I am wondering how the main play area's data structure is, erm, structured?
Characters are stacked, disappear as the player swipes over matching ones, ...
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World scene graph questions
I am going through the process of rethinking my current game engine's design. And I'd like to ask about some information from other's experiences about scene graph. Before we begin, this graph is in ...
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What is a good way of handling shaders?
I'm currently reading this book and are at the chapter about the rendering subsystem of a game engine.
Now, the book suggests that a material is a structure that provides information on how to shade ...
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Separating Game Engine from game code in similar games, with versioning
I have a finished game, that I want to decline in other versions. These would be similar games, with more or less the same kind of design, but not always, basically things might change, sometimes ...
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Is locking required to implement a seperate rendering thread?
I kept reading a lot about this, but still not sure about a proper way to implement an independent render thread (variable timestep) running parallel to a physics thread (smaller, fixed timestep).
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Car Game: Engine and Gearbox calculations?
I am making a racing game inside of Blender Game Engine.
You can see the latest video here to get the impression of what type of game it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i3m-xXtnhc
What I want to ...
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Java 3D collision detection with JBullet
So I have spent a long time trying to work on a collision detection system from scratch for own game engine and came up fruitless due to lack of time. Finally I decided to try to use Jbullet to try to ...
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Which parts of game should belong to engine and which should belong to scripts?
Often, the game is splitted into engine code (i.e. C++) and scripts (i.e. Lua).
The question is which parts / modules of game code should typically belong to engine, and wchich should belong ...
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How to wrap textures inside shader GLSL
I'm trying out GLSL and one of the problems I'm facing is wrapping a random texture sampler in the shader. Searching for answers on the web first, this leads me to using these commands:
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Rectangle moves faster to the left than to the right
I am using Slick2d to create a top-down game, however an rectangle than I am drawing to the display is moving faster to the left than to the right, and faster up than down.
I am updating frames like ...
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In-app update, live update, hotfix for mobile game
I'm researching how to make an in app update on mobile game.
When there is a hotfix, or an update, users don't have to go to Playstore, or App store to update but update inside the game. (E.g. Clash ...
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How can I show slow motion?
In my very, very simple 2D game I'm working on, I'd like there to be moments of slo-mo.
What is the best method of showing the player that the game is currently in slow-motion? As in, what is the ...
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When should we save our game data?(Before quit game or just when some data changed?)
For standalone game, what's the best time to save game data, such as player's coin, player's level, skill data and so on.
Save data before we quit game.So we just save data to file just one time, ...
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How do engines that can be scripted with a different language than the engine work?
So there are some engines that can be scripted with different languages than of what the engine itself is written with. How does this work?
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How to add 3D Sprite on tmx file background using Cocos-2dx?
We have been working on sample game, wherein we want to show 3D sprite on .tmx file(background). But 3D sprite is never shown up, though we tried setting tileMap->setGlobalZOrder(-1).
Following is ...
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Setting up an efficient OpenGL rendering loop
This is the code that I use to setup my shader
char* vertexShaderSource = getResource("vert.shad");
char* fragmentShaderSource = getResource("frag.shad");
vshad = readFile(vertexShaderSource);
fshad ...
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Learning Curve of GameMaker and its limits [closed]
I am a Data Scientist and the last couple of years, I work also as a Game Designer (not Game Development). I have not thought to create a game by myself, up to now.
As a DS, I know programming, but I ...
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May I distribute a game engine that is based on textbook examples?
I have purchased several game programming books to start my journey as a game developer. One of them teaches its readers by building a game engine's parts in each chapter until finally you have a ...
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Resource management questions
Say I have this Cache<typename Resource> class template, which is a resource cache that contains an std::map<std::string, Resource>, mapping strings to resources.
I can many different ...
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Dynamic objects in voxel engine
I am writing my own voxel engine based on cubes of different sizes and properties.
In order to store and efficiently use voxels I implemented Sparse Voxel Octree storage. But I plan to have many ...
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why is my enemy AI is on air while moving?
In Unity3D I have created an enemy AI and applied a script for it to move and chase the player. But when moving, the enemy hovers in the air. My character also does not have rigidbody and he just has ...
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How to manage a vector of “Component” base class?
I'm trying to implement a component based design for a game i'm making. I decided to write it in c++ but i'm not very good at it. Coming from a java background I encountered a problem when trying to ...
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Implementation of collision in 2D platformer (C++)
My collision system for my game currently works fine, it lets me test a collision with an entity or specified rectangle... but that's not enough. I used to use GameMaker and it had collision events in ...
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How do I implement a sparse voxel octree?
I've been working on a voxel engine and I want to implement sparse voxel storage. As I understand it, it works a bit differently from a regular octree and has some neat performance increasing ...
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Getting if a key was released/pressed this frame (C++/SDL2)
Getting if a key is currently down is easy. Just return keys[scancode]:
switch (ev.type) {
case SDL_KEYDOWN:
keys[ev.key.keysym.scancode] = true;
break;
case SDL_KEYUP:
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Predict ball movement after Collision in Pool Game?
Im trying to draw lines that predict the movement after the colliosn of 2 balls in a pool game.
How do I do that?
I heard it can be done via Raycasts, but how do I draw a line?
Any tutorials, ...
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Move Ball to clicked direction
I have a ball as a sphere in my game and Im viewing it from top down view (birdseye).
The ball is a rigid body.
I want to achieve when I click somewhere on the screen, that the ball moves toward ...
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Need help with creating a stun gun. (Unreal Script)
I am fairly new to the programming world. I am currently at College and one of the tasks I need to do is create a "stun gun" or "freeze gun". Basically when you shoot a target (other player) i want it ...
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How to seprate the game from the game engine (specifically the game loop), into seprate projects?
I am trying to separate my game from game engine both written in Java. Currently they are in two separate packages but I would like to separate them into different projects.
A main method in Project ...
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Swapping graphics engines
Is it possible, or even feasible, to have graphics engine completely decoupled from game logic?
Why I ask is because I want to start working on a game (I'm a complete beginner in game development, ...
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Runtime Error dealing with SDL_Events
I do not know if this is the best way to handle these SDL_Events, but I am attempting to create a very abstract and generic code that will update my Game Object. Basicly I have a Scene which in my ...
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How to manage state in a component-based game engine?
I'm working on a small, data-driven game engine with some friends.
We use GameObjects (a.k.a. Entities, Actors, or whatever it is called in your favorite engine) to represent every entity in the ...
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Grid Programming: Selecting a tile returns a negative coordinates
Let me explain what I am doing here. I created a class template named as PlayField where T is the type of the GridObject. I wrote this class using Cocos2dx.
The point of this class is to make it easy ...
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How do game engines mitigate CPU cost for many trigger zones & entities? [closed]
It's a rather simple question, but a somewhat fundamental in computing in general.
Let's say we have a player controlled character in an open world. The world is large. In this game-world we have a ...
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Game engine openGL operations scheduling
I'm making a custom engine and after much research, i realized that the state changes and the vertex or texture data loadings to VRAM are the most slow operations.
So I want to optimize it making a ...
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Creating Scenes Programmatically From A Deployed Build in Unity
This is somewhat of an extension to this question:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/513801/programatically-creating-entire-unity-games.html
I have a client who would like to create an entire game ...
