Game engines are a collection of libraries and tools that provide a framework to create games.
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Research - Game Engine spread over the two past decades [on hold]
I'm doing research for one of my university courses. I'm trying to collect an estimate of game engine spread in the game dev community over the past two decades.
My timeline starts with the first ...
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How should I setup my game engines classes? [on hold]
Note, this could already exist here, however I wasn't sure what to google on, and the googles I did gave me no good results, not sure if this is opinion based either.
As the title says I would like ...
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Merge static libraries into my game engine library [closed]
I'm tyring to set up a custom C++ game engine library that I can use for future games.
I wanted to include multiple third party libraries (such as box2d, SFML, SFMGUI) to implement rudimental ...
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Android based game for motion detection and server-side counterpart [closed]
I am starting to work on a small game for trial purposes. There is information I am missing and I thought I would get some good suggestions.
The game :
A simple prototype to test how we can control ...
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Question about game engine architecture [closed]
So, i've recently been writing on my own small little game engine/library again, after a few other attempts that just sort-of died because i noticed problems in them that i didn't bother to fix. This ...
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Engine or no engine? [closed]
Shall I create a engine and then make my games based on the engine or should I make my games with no pre-made engines made by myself and make the game loop and etc. for each new small game I make?
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Render terrains depending of the player position (Chunks)
Well, I have an array with all the terrains. How do I render them? I just add them to a List of terrains that are sent to the Renderer. There, every terrain of the list is rendered.
The problem is ...
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Why would somebody want to turn off v-sync? [duplicate]
From this recent article about technical limitations of UWP, I've found inability to turn off v-sync listed as a negative point.
I understand lowering graphics settings like texture quality, various ...
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Is there a reason to add options to not use advanced game technologies in a game engine/library?
I have been developing a game engine, and have been discovering and reading up on game technologies such as anisotropic filtering, ambient occlusion, anti-aliasing, etc.
Usually in games, you can ...
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Managing game states (states flow, controlling the state machine…)
I am currently struggling really bad to make the game states management. Before we dig into the problem, I must point out that I do know about state machines, I do have both implemented (states and ...
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What is the advantage of pixel coordinates for a 2d game?
From the Godot feature list:
Work in pixels as your units, but scale to any screen size and ratio.
And reading the documentation they also use pixel coordinates to update the position of objects ...
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C# / XNA / MonoGame Autotiling
Good day, been a while since I've been here. I'm busy testing out procedural generation for a project and thankfully got it working. Now I'm trying to implement an auto tiling system which uses ...
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Libgdx Fine Tune Megaman Movement
With help from my last question, I was able to fix the issue of having a stuttering effect if you keep hitting jump, while jumping.
I believe I have managed to match moving on the X axis and the ...
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What language do you program in Lumberyard?
I've looked through the FAQ on amazons site and all they mention is C++/Lua for the web service stuff. Can i assume it's C++ for the game content itself or something else (the visual script editor ...
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AntTweakBar doesn't register SFML mouse events
I'm trying to add GUI for easier level editing in our game engine. We're using SFML for all the basic stuff (window management, input events etc). I've chosen AntTweakBar because it is a well known ...
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What is the best way to represent a large field of objects while using minimal resources?
I have recently started to plan a project in Unity that will be for android. I have a database that consists of over 150,000 stars (may trim this down if I/O cripples the overhead). The game will ...
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How to handle GameObjects that have been destroyed but are still held by others?
I'm developing my own game engine in C++ as a learning exercise. I have employed a fairly standard method of handling destroyed GameObjects:
Mark them as destroyed
Have the scene delete destroyed ...
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Coordinate system for a strategy game
I am working on a personal project of developing a simple 3D strategy game. I am working on my own game engine (let's assume that I have to have my own) and I have one theoretical question. How to ...
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Simple UI components in a game
How are simple UI inputs typically handled in 2D mobile games? For example, text input boxes and keyboards. It seems that many game engines do always have simple UI components. There are obvious ...
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Decoupling input from game states / entity behavior
I'm looking for a way or general best practice advices for decoupling the architecture of my game, in the example below the input from the current game state workflow / entity behavior. While I'm all ...
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Unity3D 5 Personal? [duplicate]
I want to make a game in Unity3D and I am planning to launch it to Android using the free license. However, if the game becomes a huge success and earns more than $100k, does (a) unity take the money ...
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Quaternion Types in Game Engine
I've recently been coding a quaternion class for my game engine and have run into a problem. Firstly, should I be using unit quaternions for my engine? Secondly, should I have the functions ...
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Should I implement Entity Component System in all my projects?
I'm not here to ask for any specific code implementation, I'm here just to make my ideas clearer. But let me explain the situation:
I have already developed some little and amatorial game projects ...
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How to detect collision only in non-transparent texture?
I am developing a game using libgdx. I am trying to detect the collision between bee and tube. I am using the following code to detect the collision.
if(player.getBounds().overlaps(boundsBot)){
}
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Complex system-component dependencies in entity-component system?
I am trying to design a typical (data-oriented) ECS engine. The issue I am struggling with is that my rendering system have to rely on two different sets of entities to actually do rendering.
My ...
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Alternative to entity system in a game engine? [closed]
I have been developing a game engine. I was wondering what I should use for a component system. I've read up on entity component systems, but what other alternatives are there? The idea of searching ...
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Why is the alpha value of a Sprite in LibGdx 0.99607843 and not 1?
I'm developing a game in LibGDX and one of my problems is related to the alpha value of a Sprite object.
If I create a new Sprite sprite object then sprite.getColor().a is equal to 0.99607843 and not ...
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How are pocket dimensions created in multiplayer games? (programming aspect) [closed]
How do multiplayer games deal with multiple instances/dungeons/regions? I'm familiar with server clustering which is what larger games use such as Eve and World of Warcraft.
How do games such as ...
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Organizing Setup(), Update() and Draw() function in a game engine
I'm creating my first game engine and I want help with organizing the Setup(), Update() and Draw() functions in the correct way.
Here is how my main() function looks like
/* BEGIN main() Function */
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Using two languages in a game engine?
I'm thinking about making a game engine as a learning project.
I know Java the best and I figure most of the code is not going to be running that much of the time, (20/80 rule) so why not write most ...
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Want to create live-voice chat between players either in unity or unreal engine [closed]
I would like to create a real-time voice chat in either in unreal or unity between the players.I would like to associate and apply this voice-chat depend on username. I am saying "or" for the ...
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How to store renderer vertex / index data in scene graph objects?
I have a SceneNode class which contains a Mesh instance. The Mesh class stores client side information such as vertex and index arrays (before they're uploaded to the GPU). I also have an abstracted ...
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Unreal Engine Player Quality
I had to force Unreal to use my integrated graphics card because VR wasn't working with my NVidia card.
When I did this, the framerate dropped terribly and it popped up a dialogue "Frame rate's bad, ...
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How to parse a and displat TMX map object in SDL using tmxparser ?/How to make a platform game using tiled editor and SDL?
I am newbie in this field getting too much trouble in simple platform game for one of my project module if you guys could help or share some code. This is what I have done till now.
I could parse a ...
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Why not draw a custom font with lines and/or polygons?
Reasons/advantages I see:
More flexible procedural animation.
Completely custom font.
Performance (no texturing or high-poly)?
No assets (unless data-driven).
Multi-resolution compared to sprite ...
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Ideal draw order - sort primarily by distance or material?
When it comes to pre-sorting the draw calls for a given frame, I am aware of two different methods for optimising.
The first is to batch draw calls by their material. This minimises shader changes ...
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Threading/Streaming files while rendering the scene
I am writing a game engine and am trying to wrap my head around data streaming while rendering. What I mean by this is being able to load resources (however slow it may be) while rendering and not ...
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The Power of 2D Engines vs Modern 3D Games [closed]
I'm toying around a lot with Game Maker. I really like it. GML is very simple and with its nearly object oriented design you could create anything in 2D you can think of.
However there is a limit. ...
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How do I correctly use singletons in C++ engine programming?
I know singletons are bad, my old game engine used a singleton 'Game' object that handles everything from holding all data to the actual game loop. Now I'm making a new one.
The problem is, to draw ...
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How do you apply relativistic physics to a 4x strategy game?
I had the big idea of trying to create a hard science fiction 4x strategy game (with the obvious space setting), which is supposed to simulate a realistic way of creating interstellar societies while ...
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Stencil buffer confuse
I was trying to make two object outline. One would color the object with orange and other with green. I just wanna know if is it possible to have two object outline at the same time because every time ...
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Can I embed a game in a Pdf Resume?
I was thinking how it could be cool to have an interactive game on resume. (Obviously the digital version, not paper version.)
For the sake of this question and scope of this site, let's ignore ...
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How to model an Attack( ) action? How to model combat? In general, how objects communicate?
I never understood how would you elegantly describe two people talking in OO. I think this question extends to how similar objects communicate in general. I am designing a game now and Units have to ...
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Connect phone to computer? [closed]
In order to test out my game, I need to use my real life device. The problem is, android studio isn't recognizing my device plugged in:
The problem: My device isn't getting detected in android studio
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LUA form/scene loading
At the moment, I'm working on a small game project using LUA and the love2d framework. Using this framework, I've made my own assets (i.e. button images, form images, etc), and using these assets I've ...
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Draw lines in game scene [closed]
I want to do game for Android that allows draw lines. These lines should be physic object at the same time.
I am good at Unity3D and I tried in Unity3D. But it is not supported.
What engine should I ...
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Manager Game Logic [closed]
I'm currently trying to figure out a way where I can achieve the following;
Pre-Calculate the game - This will predetermine any event / interaction between the players.
Simulate the calculation - ...
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How to avoid mouse click over the trigger object?
I'm detecting the mouse clicks if the click is happened over the collider but i dont't want to fire mouse click if it is on the trigger object. How to i do this. Anyone give me a suggestion.
Thank ...
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DirectX is difficult sometimes [closed]
I recently started DirectX 11. Sometimes I can't get my head around it.
First of all what are COM objects and why we do have to release them?
I have done most of initialization, but I am stuck in ...
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What is the best abilities modding system that you encounter in games? [closed]
I'm thinking about designing an abilities system (as in a moba game).
Most important goal is to be able to easily create new abilities in the editor, with a low learning curve (ultimate goal: simple ...
