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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2D “digging” method in unity
I am in the process of developing a 2D digging game for mobile. I need an efficient method to dig tunnels through the levels (Similar to the game play in Death Worm), and build colliders around the ...
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3D on GBA, how was it done?
I've been wondering, how did game programmers make this: https://youtu.be/S6huq2G43Ls?t=4368 possible?
There seems to be some odd morphing of textures when you walk by objects, and the textures are ...
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Any major perf (or otherwise) concerns with rendering to/from big partial texture rather than multiple?
I have a very low res mobile game I'm working on that takes multiple rendering passes followed by a pass the composes them. Currently, I have a tex for each pass- each of which gets given to the ...
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Mobile Game: Google Play no supported dev country and capitalization alternatives (no policies violation or suspicious behavior)?
If my country is listed as not supported as a developer country (for payments), this mean developer can upload app but no make any money with it. If I understood correctly, not even in app ads are ...
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Unity2D Multiplayer - Spawning player at user's end
I am currently into a 2d mobile multiplayer project. Its going to be a 2 player game for now. So the host and the client are the only players.
I am using Unity 5.4 and the default multiplayer ...
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Are the same number of tiles displayed in an isometric game regardless of phone orientation?
I would like to make an isometric RPG game that can be played with one hand in portrait mode. This will primarily be for smartphones like the iphone 6 and samsung galaxy s7. I've been looking at many ...
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Do shaders still need to be optimized on desktop / laptop platforms
On mobile platforms shader optimization is necessary and improve FPS.
But on desktop platforms is optimization still needed (and will improve FPS) or does the GPU driver handle it ?
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Ad Takes Long to Display
I have an Admob Ad that I managed to place successfully in my LibGDX game. The only problem is that for the first 20-30 seconds after opening, the ad doesn't display. The only way I can get to ...
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Designing social network structure for a mobile game
We are going to design a mobile game in which players could be related with each others in a social network-like mechanism. So, how we could integrate a mobile game and a social network (SN). Should ...
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How to turn the hotspot on automatically in Unity?
I have made a simple LAN multi-player game in Unity (just for learning purposes).
This is the main code (for connection):
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class StartServer : ...
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Best client/server architecture for a mobile management game?
For the past year I have worked on a small company that develops a traditional browser based strategy game, of the likes of Travian or Ogame, but using a more interactive approach like Tribal Wars 2.
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Do I need a server to connect two players in a mobile game?
I would like to make a 2 players app game, where 2 players can compete with each other in real time.
If I want the player to be able to compete with the public (anyone who registered with my game ...
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Unity3d Cross platform Input GUI Depth
I'm creating my GUI controls in Unity 5.3 I have a joystick in which overlays a swipe pad. Originally all of the controls were working fine. However, now the touch pad is overlaying the Joystick.
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How to use touch.deltaPosition properly?
I use following code for measure touch delata position:
private Touch firstDetectedTouch;
public Vector3 dragDistance;
void Update() {
if (Input.touchCount > 0) {
...
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(UE4) Mobile Social Networking
I am currently creating a simple game with the Unreal Engine 4(.11 if it helps) and I would like to be able to link it to social media (facebook, twitter, etc) so that players can share their high ...
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Drag event inverts in landscape mode
I am developing an car game for android with an UI steering wheel to control the car. I'm following Answer example for the wheel rotation. This is the code to rotate the wheel.
rectT....
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How to activate GearVR Menu in my own Unity-Apps?
So in normal GearVr-Apps, which you can download from the marketplace, you can activate the GearVr Menu to control brightness etc. with a long click on the back button. But this does not work for all ...
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Unity Level Streaming
I'm working on mobile 2D game, and every level has about 5000 sprites of a 256x256 resolution representing static objects like tiling ground, roads, etc.
I want to know whether or not that would ...
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Unity move canvas slightly with smartphone acceleration
I'm developing an AR-App with the Samsung-GearVR. To get a smooth UI, I thought about creating a UI, which is not completely fix, I thought it could be nice, when the UI is slightly behind my head ...
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Is it possible to use true Blinn-Phong lighting on Unity Android/IOS?
I've noticed that the Unity's Legacy Shaders/Specular shader does not work on mobiles due to the lighting model being incompatible. I then tried using the Mobile/Bumped Specular shader, but this ...
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How to have a gradient blur in objects on Unity?
This is related to a previous question I've asked here:
How to blur entire scene but a specific spot in Unity?
At the time I managed to solve my problem with a "hard" cutoff on the blurred and non-...
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How can I implement Player Prefs to Save High scores in unity?
I am new to both unity and C# and facing trouble in saving and displaying the highscore.text in the game.Til now I only successfully managed to display the scoreUI and update them whenever player ...
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Should particles check if they are in a region, or regions if particles are in them?
I have around 100 to 200 particles in my game. Then I have 5 to 20 regions (circle-shape) which should count the particles which enter them and add some force to them, so they change their direction.
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How could I access game data from a dev machine at runtime from a mobile platform?
When working on a game on a mobile platform, having read/write access to game data (assets, configuration files) stored on the dev machine at runtime would enable building of tools to quickly iterate, ...
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How to blur entire scene but a specific spot in Unity?
What I want is basically: A way to blur every object/sprite on the scene, but have a "blur-free" circular zone, that can move. And everything that's behind that circular zone won't have the blur ...
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Is localisation important for a mobile game with little text?
Let's say it's a physics puzzle (Cut the Rope, Angry Birds) or a runner (Crossy Road, Subway Surfers) clone with some gameplay twists. Assume it puts text on some of the few controls: 'Play', 'Sound ...
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Cross-platform C++/OpenGL ES development (iOS/Android) [closed]
I already have reasonable experience with C++ and OpenGL, and I have recently decided to try out mobile game development. After successfully creating a simple OpenGL ES Android app using Java, I ...
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Handle two different touch gestures at same time without overlapping
I'm trying to create a Character touch controls for 2d platform.
In my script Im using one horizontal swipe and hold touch gesture and one vertical swipe gesture without hold.Both are different ...
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Joystick like controls in unity for mobiles
How can i achieve joystick like controls on mobile?
For example i have a 2D platform game where character should keep on moving right when swiped right and held and vice versa, just like a real ...
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Apple iOS review and interpreted code download/execution
I'm looking for some information regarding two specifics rules of the App Store Review guidelines. More specifically rules 2.7 and 2.8 :
2.7
Apps that download code in any way or form will be ...
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Platform for mobile game feedback
I am designing a small mobile game. Eventually i am going to release it on Play store and App store. But is there any platform such as Steam Greenlight where I can put my concept or demo and get some ...
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How to activate user input modules with platform defines in unity?
I'm having some trouble understanding the activation process with input modules.
I'm making a game that can work on mobile or on Desktop in VR.
Basically, it works by creating a world-space canvas ...
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Multiplayer turn based Android/iOS [closed]
We're developing a mobile endless runner game, on Unity3d where you can challenge your Facebook friends. The only interaction between the players is the challenge - one player challenges the other, ...
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Testing SFML sf::Touch on ordinary PC
So I’ve created a small app that is designed to be used on smartphones and tablets. Accordingly the app makes use of the sf::Touch class which determines the point on the screen of the device that the ...
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Is this the typical approach to modern OpenGL UI & Text rendering, for mobile?
I'm implementing GUI in OpenGL ES 2.0 to fit with my application framework's existing structure. I'd like to have the UI rendering eat as little mobile processing capacity as possible. So to confirm......
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Timers and performance for mobile JS
I'm using the Three.js JavaScript library to do some things in WebGL, and I wonder how the graphic aspects of timers are done on mobile.
I was creating numbers with geometries and just replacing them ...
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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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Unity UI Button not working on PC build but working on Android mobile build
I am using Unity to build a game that is going to be used on PC and on mobile devices also. The problem I have is that when I use Unity UI Button, on mobile (android) is working perfectly but on PC ...
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Simple mobile multiplayer game. TCP/UDP? [duplicate]
I'm tying to dive into multiplayer game programming.
The game is quite simple, it's a 2D scroller mobile game, the player need to touch the screen in order to move 1 step and it could contain up to 4 ...
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How to force Landscape Mode Unity3D Android Game?
I am developing a small side project on Unity that will ultimately be for Android but I cannot figure out how to force landscape on the device and when I have tried it out the game just goes all over ...
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I'm making a networked game for mobile. Should I worry about cheating?
I'm in the process of making a racing game for Android/iOS. I'm thinking of implementing a server/client model, should I worry about cheating and make all players communicate with a server of mine, or ...
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Facebook data exchange for mobile games (multiplayer)
A multiplayer mobile game that we are working on connects players through Google Play and Game Center but we would also like to add an option to play with your Facebook friends and here's the question:...
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Moving pac-man in maze game using objective c
I am trying to develop maze game using objective-c, I want to allow moving the pac-man using swipe method, the user can swipe his fingers on the iPhone to indicate where he want PAC-MAN to go but I'm ...
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Uncontrollable platform spawning
I made simple spawner like this:
void Update() {
if (PlatformPosition.spawnNewPlatform) {
NewPlatform();
}
}
public void NewPlatform() {
if (active) {
newTransform = ...
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show different color areas of image on touch
How do I show colors filled in on a colorless version of an image on user touch. (for example color mania or guess the colors app). I know one way is to provide the same image 3 times (for 3 colors) ...
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How can I enable flat surface reflections in UE4 on mobile?
Could someone please tell me how do I enable reflections on flat surfaces on a mobile in UE4? I have a simple room with one directional light. I need reflections on the tables and ground planes. I ...
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Any way to load/execute scripts (game-logic) included in a post-release DLC (Unity3D AssetBundles) on iOS since it seems its not allowed?
We are making a game where players will be granted access to new levels every week and these new levels will probably be downloaded from our server as Unity Asset Bundles
The only issue is, as ...
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Performance overhead on Non-POT Texture in POT Atlas
Using atlas, we can reduce memory and draw call. And the atlas is usally POT(Power of Two) Texture.
And I know non-POT texture have a lot of GPU and memory performance overhead. (link)
I have many ...
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Using Java on mobile, should I avoid object construction to reduce GC overhead?
I new to both Java and game development and working on my first LibGDX game targeting mobile systems.
How problematic is the garbage collector in a mobile environment? Should I try to reuse as many ...
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Read custom content in MONO-GAME in a cross-platform way
using Mono-Game,
i have some custom content files in some binary format (not .xnb)
in run-time i need to read the content of those files.
i prefer to get a stream, but if something will give me a ...
