Questions tagged [game-development]
Development is undertaken by a game developer, which may range from a single person to a large business. Mainstream games are normally funded by a publisher and take several years to develop. Indie games can take less time and can be produced cheaply by individuals and small developers. The indie game industry has seen a rise in recent years with the growth of new online distribution systems and the mobile game market.
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Best way to approach connection between game server to client connection with Django web server as middleman
I have a web game design question. I am trying to build a multiplayer web game with non intensive graphics (ex tic tac toe, chess). I am trying to figure out how to take already authenticated users in ...
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Should non-browser applications connect to a URL?
I have written a game that users will download. When the game is started, I want it to automatically connect to the matchmaking server. Does that mean that, somewhere in the source code for the game, ...
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Game Systems Interaction Design
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I'm writing an FPS game in c++. There is a timed game mode, players run around a map shoot from a variety of weapons which are either hitscan or projectile based, when a shot connects, based on ...
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How can I better design systems and components in ECS?
I'm working on a game from scratch in C++ which is based on an Entity Component System and I've ran into a bit of a problem with the way I've been designing my systems and components. I find myself ...
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Is there an algorithm for matchmaking?
I am interested to know if there is an existing algorithm to start a multiplayer game, for example, poker. What steps do we need to take when the player enters the "matchmaking phase"?
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Culling edges from a triangulation while maintaining a connected graph?
I'm working on a small project and I'm randomly generating "world maps", with nodes you can fast travel to along given routes.
The basics of this aren't complicated; throw random points on a ...
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Multiplayer FPS Architecture
I'm creating a multiplayer game and have been having some trouble creating a good architecture for the server side.
So far on the server we store a list of player which are the actively connected ...
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How can I mix this grid to guarantee it being solvable in X minimum steps?
Note: This question is not about this particular instance of this grid with these exact words, but about any combination of words.
I am programming a puzzle game where you have to arrange a grid of ...
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Implementing a text adventure using a deque filled in by procedures [closed]
Here, I suggested the following approach to implementation of a simple text adventure game (in Python). I think that this principle could be used to develop an adventure, similar to The Colossal Cave ...
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Writing a growing simulation that scales
Or ways to get better run time than a nested loop?
How would you design this?
I hope this is the place to ask semi-vague software engineering questions.
My simple simulation is like this:
There is a ...
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What is a common practice to refer to other datas within a data oriented design?
This question has been in my mind for a while now, especially in the context of high performance, interactive 3d applications. Just want to find out what is the general practices in DoD for ...
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Circular references with generic classes
I'm trying to create an interaction system for a game I'm developing with Unity and C# and I've been struggling with it for a while now. It consists of interactors and interactables. The idea is that ...
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What algorithm should I use for this game problem?
I have a grid-based puzzle game, that is based on states. I need an algorithm that can find a solution for each game level. A game level starts in a specific state and ends in a unique, well-known ...
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Why are angles usually represented by floats in programming?
My idea is that, if an unsigned 32-bit integer is used for representing angles in a way that 0 is 0°, 231 is 180° and 232−1 is just under 360°, all possible values are used and evenly distributed ...
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Is there a way to add impending state changes to a queue on a node server, and is it necessary?
I'm writing an express/socket.io-powered game server for a web game. I have a central map of game state objects, each representing an ongoing match, like so:
// map of gameId -> game (primary ...
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