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• [C#] Own component with panel

  - by Adam

  Hi, I want to create my own component which consists two other panels. One of them has fixed contents (such as control buttons, etc.) and the other is standard panel, where I can add other components in designer (VS2008). I know that I have to create UserControl, where I can place my two panels. Then I want to insert my component into the form. But I don't know how to create behavior where I can add other components (such as buttons, labels, etc.) only into second panel in my component. Could anyone help me with creating this component? Thank you. Adam.

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• Alternative to Game State System?

  - by Ricket

  As far as I can tell, most games have some sort of "game state system" which switches between the different game states; these might be things like "Intro", "MainMenu", "CharacterSelect", "Loading", and "Game". On the one hand, it totally makes sense to separate these into a state system. After all, they are disparate and would otherwise need to be in a large switch statement, which is obviously messy; and they certainly are well represented by a state system. But at the same time, I look at the "Game" state and wonder if there's something wrong about this state system approach. Because it's like the elephant in the room; it's HUGE and obvious but nobody questions the game state system approach. It seems silly to me that "Game" is put on the same level as "Main Menu". Yet there isn't a way to break up the "Game" state. Is a game state system the best way to go? Is there some different, better technique to managing, well, the "game state"? Is it okay to have an intro state which draws a movie and listens for enter, and then a loading state which loops on the resource manager, and then the game state which does practically everything? Doesn't this seem sort of unbalanced to you, too? Am I missing something?

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• Hide Flex Component From SWFLoader

  - by Yan

  How can I hide a component and what AS3 code to use to hide a Flex Component from an external swf file?

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• dynamic JSF composite component styling/rendering

  - by Checkoff

  I've a little problem with a composite component. This component's implementation looks like: <composite:implementation> <h:outputStylesheet name="foo.css" library="bar"/> <div id="#{cc.clientId}"> <composite:insertChildren/> </div> </composite:implementation> It is included dynamically into a facelet page which include this component with JSTL core tags. The facelet page is similar to the following one. <h:panelGroup id="viewport" layout="block"> <c:if test="#{controller.object != null}"> <c:forEach items="#{controller.object.elements}" var="element"> <c:if test="#{element.type == 'type1'}"> <my:componentTypeOne id="#{element.id}"/> </c:if> <c:if test="#{element.type == 'type2'}"> <my:componentTypeTwo id="#{element.id}"/> </c:if> </c:forEach> </c:if> </h:panelGroup> So when I only render the viewport of the page the components are rendered but without the stylesheet defined within the composite component my:component. Is there any way to include the stylesheet on the fly without rendering the whole page? EDIT: extension of the example code..

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• Good book(s) for MMORPG design & implementation?

  - by mawg

  I am a long time professional C/C++ programmer (mostly embedded systems) and a hobbyist windows & php hacker. Can anyone recommend a book(s) specifically aimed at designing and (hopefully) implementing an MMORPG? I don't need general how to design or how to code books. Maybe a really good generic games book, but I am not interested in 1st person shooters, I want to know what it takes to implement an MMORPG. Good books, maybe also good URLs. Thanks just searching eBay and Amazon threw up a whole slew of books. Amazon's customer reviews give me an idea of how good they are, and the overview tells me what areas they cover

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• Interaction between main flex application and component

  - by Tom

  Hello everybody. I made a login component for my flex 4 application, and i load this component from my main flex application with: <ns1:Login id="page_login" visible="true"></ns1:Login> Now i want to change the visibility from true to false, from the login component. Is there a way to do this kind of interaction? Thanx!

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• Should Starting a Quick Game via Google Game Services be Iterated?

  - by user46727

  I have been following this tutorial for Google Play Game Services. I am a little unclear as to if the room matching algorithm should be looped or not. Can I just initialize this process once and let it time out? Or by iterating through it is it somehow rechecking it? If anyone had the approximate timeout that would be great as well. The problem stems from the fact that even when both phones are signing into the Game Services (at virtually the same time, my friend and I logged in), the room is not registering multiple people. One time my friend's phone even entered the game map, showing that he somehow was able to progress from the room initialization process. Relevant screen update methods which I am starting this matchmaking process: @Override public void update(float deltaTime) { game.options.updateTiles(); if(!isInitiated) { startQuickGame(); } } private void startQuickGame() { // auto-match criteria to invite one random automatch opponent. // You can also specify more opponents (up to 3). if(game.mGoogleClient.isConnected() && !isInitiated) { Bundle am = RoomConfig.createAutoMatchCriteria(1, 3, 0); // build the room config: RoomConfig.Builder roomConfigBuilder = RoomConfig.builder(Network.getInstance()); roomConfigBuilder.setMessageReceivedListener(Network.getInstance()); roomConfigBuilder.setRoomStatusUpdateListener(Network.getInstance()); roomConfigBuilder.setAutoMatchCriteria(am); RoomConfig roomConfig = roomConfigBuilder.build(); // create room: Games.RealTimeMultiplayer.create(game.mGoogleClient, roomConfig); // go to game screen this.mRoom = Network.getInstance().getRoom(); if(this.mRoom != null && this.mRoom.getParticipants().size() >= 2) { game.setScreen(new MultiGameScreen(game, this.mRoom)); isInitiated = true; } } else { game.mGoogleClient.connect(); } }

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• Load order in XNA?

  - by marc wellman

  I am wondering whether the is a mechanism to manually control the call-order of void Game.LoadContent() as it is the case with void Game.Draw(GameTime gt) by setting int DrawableGameComponent.DrawOrder ? except the order that results from adding components to the Game.Components container and maybe there exists something similar with Game.Update(GameTime gt) ? UPDATE To exemplify my issue consider you have several game components which do depends to each other regarding their instantiation. All are inherited from DrawableGameComponent. Now suppose that in one of these components you are loading a Model from the games content pipeline and add it to some static container in order to provide access to it for other game components. public override LoadContent() { // ... Model m = _contentManager.Load<Model>(@"content/myModel"); // GameComponents is a static class with an accessible list where game components reside. GameComponents.AddCompnent(m); // ... } Now it's easy to imagine that this components load method has to precede other game components that do want to access the model m in their own load method.

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• SAB BizTalk Archiving Pipeline Component - Codeplex

  - by Stuart Brierley

  In an effort to give a little more to the BizTalk development community, I have created my first Codeplex project. The SAB BizTalk Archiving Pipeline Component was written using Visual Studio 2010 with BizTalk Server 2010 intended as the target platform.  It is currently at version 0.1, meaning that I have not yet completed all the intended functionality and have so far carried out a limited number of tests.  It does however archive files within the bounds of the functionailty so far implemented and seems to be stable in use. It is based on a recent evolution of a basic archiving component that I wrote in the past, and it is my hope that it will continue to evolve in the coming months. This work was inspired by some old posts by Gilles Zunino and Jeff Lynch.   You can download the documentation, source code or component dll from Codeplex, but to give you a taste here is the first section of the documentation to whet your appetite: SAB BizTalk Archiving Pipeline Component   The SAB BizTalk Archiving Pipeline Component has been developed to allow custom piplelines to be created that can archive messages at any stage of pipeline processing.   It works in both receive and send pipelines and will archive messages to file based on the configuration applied to the component in the BizTalk Administration Console.   The Archiving Pipeline Component has been coded for use with BizTalk Server 2010. Use with other versions of BizTalk has not been tested.   The Archiving Pipeline component is supplied as a dll file that should be placed in the BizTalk Server Pipeline Components folder. It can then be used when developing custom pipelines to be deployed as a part of your BizTalk Server applications.   This version of the component allows you to use a number of generic messaging macros and also a small number that are specific to the FILE adapter. It is intended to extend these macros to cover context properties from other adapters in future releases.     Archive Pipeline Parameters As with all pipeline components, the following parameters can be set when creating your custom pipeline and at runtime via the administration console.   Enabled:              Enables and disables the archive process.                                 True; messages will be archived.   False; messages will be passed to the next stage in the pipeline without performing any processing.   File Name:          The file name of the archived message.   Allows the component to build the archive filename at run-time; based on the values entered, the permitted macros and data extracted from the message context properties.   e.g.        %FileReceivedFileName%-%InterchangeSequenceNumber%   File Mask:           The extension to be added to the File Name following all Macro processing.   e.g.        .xml   File Path:             The path on which the archived message should be saved.   Allows the component to build the archive directory at run-time; based on the values entered, permitted macros and data extracted from the message context properties.   e.g.        C:\Archive\%ReceivePortName%\%Year%\%Month%\%Day%\                   \\ArchiveShare\%ReceivePortName%\%Date%\     Overwrite:          Enables and disables existing file overwrites.   True; any existing file with the same File Path/Name combination (following macro replacement) will be overwritten.   False; any existing file with the same File Path/Name combination (following macro replacement) will not be overwritten.  The current message will be archived with a GUID appended to the File Name.

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• How is game development different from other software development?

  - by Davy8

  For a solid general purpose software developer, what specifically is different about game development, either fundamentally or just differences in degree? I've done toy games like Tic-tac-toe, Tetris, and a brute-force sudoku solver (with UI) and I'm now embarking on a mid-sized project (mid-sized for being a single developer and not having done many games) and one thing I've found with this particular project is that separation of concerns is a lot harder since everything affects state, and every object can interact with every other object in a myriad of ways. So far I've managed to keep the code reasonably clean for my satisfaction but I find that keeping clean code in non-trivial games is a lot harder than it is for my day job. The game I'm working on is turn-based and the graphics are going to be fairly simple (web-based, mostly through DOM manipulation) so real time and 3d work aren't really applicable to me, but I'd still be interested in answers regarding those if they're interesting. Mostly interested in general game logic though. P.S. Feel free to retag this, I'm not really sure what tags are applicable.

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• Is it possible to design a multiplayer game which can be played from different devices?

  - by user9820

  I want to design a online multiplayer game for all gaming devices e.g. Desktop PC, internet browser, android phones, android tablets, iphone, ipad, XBOX 360 etc. Now my main requirement is that, I want all devices can be used to play the game in multiplayer mode toghether i.e. One player can be connected using PC another using android phone and other may be with iphone or ipad. My doubts are - How to make all devices to connect to common game server? What will be the logic for graphics and texture because all devices screen will be of different aspect ratio?

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• Using components in the XNA Game State Management example?

  - by Zolomon

  In the game state management example at the App Hub, they say that if you want to use components in the example you can extend the GameScreen to host other components inside itself. I'm having a very hard time trying to tie this up. I tried extending the GameScreen class by adding a public property of public List<DrawableGameCompnent> components { get; set; } and then add my components to that list when I initialize the current screen as well as looping over the components in the LoadContent, Update and Draw methods. However, this doesn't feel like the correct way to go - mainly because it doesn't work when I get to the implementation of my GameplayScreen. Any thoughts?

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• Any learning/studying material for C/C++ that use game programming as learning context out there?

  - by mac

  As most of game programming is done - I read on this very site - in C/C++ I was wondering if there is any learning/studying material for C/C++ that would target specifically game programming. I am not looking for material about "developing games" or "software architecture for games", but rather for material that uses "game programming" as the CONTEXT for introducing and illustrating C/C++ features, idioms, programming techniques, etc... With a simile: think to the GOF book on design patterns. There, they used "developing a text-editor" as a context for introducing design patterns, but the book is most definitively not a book about "developing text-editors". Thanks in advance for your time and advice! PS: My background: I am a programmer with a solid experience in OO scripting languages and only some experience in C and Assembler (on AVR microcontrollers), so I am thinking to mid-to-advanced level material, rather than tutorials for beginners, although it might be interesting to take a look to the latter ones if nothing else is available.

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• Where to hire a scenario writer for a small interactive story game?

  - by Alexander Gladysh

  I need a scenario for a small dialog-based game / interactive story. The game would be used as an example for a middleware tool we're developing. I would like to buy an existing story (it should be dynamic of course — with branching dialogs etc.), or hire someone to write a new one. Please advise, where to go to find such person / service? We're based in Russia, so getting a talented enough native English writer locally is a bit of a problem. Update: To be extra clear: We must get all necessary rights to reuse the story and make a derived work (i.e. the game we're talking about) from it. This is a commercial product. Borrowing someone else's work at random and using it just not going to work.

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• How do I render terrain in a 2.5D perspective, like in the game Don't Starve?

  - by Hamdan

  I have experience in making 2D side scroller games such as Terraria, but now I want to challenge myself and make a game that has a 2.5D perspective. The game I am trying to mimic is Don't Starve. Right now my focus is on figuring out how to render the ground. I am having a hard time figuring out how they generated the ground, and then rendered it. The way I think they rendered the ground is by first painting the ground in some paint program, and then somehow manipulating that flat image so that it appears to have depth. I am completely confused by how you would actually render that type of terrain. I want the terrain to have the following features: Look like the terrain in Don't Starve, here is a video showing the terrain in Don't Starve The terrain will be flat, and the camera's angle and perspective will be fixed Any tips and hints will be appreciated, Thank you in advance. (I am working in Java, using the Light Weight Java Game Library (LWJGL).)

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• How much game dev does $x amount of money get you?

  - by Frank

  How much a game costs to make gets asked often and is always answered with it depends or varies on the quality of the game. Well this is basically the same question but is a bit more precise. I'm wonder what quality of game you can make with varying degrees of funds. Lets say 500k, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, 15m, and 20m. Let's assume you don't do any of it yourself and it only covers development only... no advertising or manufacturing.

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• How do I create a game that runs on Windows, iOS and Android?

  - by AspaApps

  I use C++ to create windows games and now I want to step into another other OS like Android or iOS. I'm totally familiar with C++ so I tried to create app for iOS using objective C it was working awesome. However, I also want to publish games for Android but not by using Java. I don't want to create a single game 5-6 times for other platforms. Is their any way that if I create game for Windows then it will work in Android and iOS ? Or should I use Action Script 3.0? If I use action script 3.0, will it require Flash player to run the game in Windows, Android, iOS?

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• Error in code of basic game using multiple sprites and surfaceView [on hold]

  - by Khagendra Nath Mahato

  I am a beginner to android and i was trying to make a basic game with the help of an online video tutorial. I am having problem with the multi-sprites and how to use with surfaceview.The application fails launching. Here is the code of the game.please help me. package com.example.killthemall; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Random; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.Rect; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.SurfaceHolder; import android.view.SurfaceView; import android.widget.Toast; public class Game extends Activity { KhogenView View1; @Override protected void onPause() { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onPause(); while(true){ try { OurThread.join(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }} } Thread OurThread; int herorows = 4; int herocolumns = 3; int xpos, ypos; int xspeed; int yspeed; int herowidth; int widthnumber = 0; int heroheight; Rect src; Rect dst; int round; Bitmap bmp1; // private Bitmap bmp1;//change name public List<Sprite> sprites = new ArrayList<Sprite>() { }; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); View1 = new KhogenView(this); setContentView(View1); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.image)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad1)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad2)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad3)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad4)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad5)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.bad6)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good1)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good2)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good3)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good4)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good5)); sprites.add(createSprite(R.drawable.good6)); } private Sprite createSprite(int image) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub bmp1 = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), image); return new Sprite(this, bmp1); } public class KhogenView extends SurfaceView implements Runnable { SurfaceHolder OurHolder; Canvas canvas = null; Random rnd = new Random(); { xpos = rnd.nextInt(canvas.getWidth() - herowidth)+herowidth; ypos = rnd.nextInt(canvas.getHeight() - heroheight)+heroheight; xspeed = rnd.nextInt(10 - 5) + 5; yspeed = rnd.nextInt(10 - 5) + 5; } public KhogenView(Context context) { super(context); // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub OurHolder = getHolder(); OurThread = new Thread(this); OurThread.start(); } @Override public void run() { // TODO Auto-generated method stub herowidth = bmp1.getWidth() / 3; heroheight = bmp1.getHeight() / 4; boolean isRunning = true; while (isRunning) { if (!OurHolder.getSurface().isValid()) continue; canvas = OurHolder.lockCanvas(); canvas.drawRGB(02, 02, 50); for (Sprite sprite : sprites) { if (widthnumber == 3) widthnumber = 0; update(); getdirection(); src = new Rect(widthnumber * herowidth, round * heroheight, (widthnumber + 1) * herowidth, (round + 1)* heroheight); dst = new Rect(xpos, ypos, xpos + herowidth, ypos+ heroheight); canvas.drawBitmap(bmp1, src, dst, null); } widthnumber++; OurHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas); } } public void update() { try { Thread.sleep(1000); } catch (InterruptedException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } if (xpos + xspeed <= 0) xspeed = 40; if (xpos >= canvas.getWidth() - herowidth) xspeed = -50; if (ypos + yspeed <= 0) yspeed = 45; if (ypos >= canvas.getHeight() - heroheight) yspeed = -55; xpos = xpos + xspeed; ypos = ypos + yspeed; } public void getdirection() { double angleinteger = (Math.atan2(yspeed, xspeed)) / (Math.PI / 2); round = (int) (Math.round(angleinteger) + 2) % herorows; // Toast.makeText(this, String.valueOf(round), // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } } public class Sprite { Game game; private Bitmap bmp; public Sprite(Game game, Bitmap bmp) { // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub this.game = game; this.bmp = bmp; } } } Here is the LogCat if it helps.... 08-22 23:18:06.980: D/AndroidRuntime(28151): Shutting down VM 08-22 23:18:06.980: W/dalvikvm(28151): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb3f6f4f0) 08-22 23:18:06.980: D/AndroidRuntime(28151): procName from cmdline: com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:06.980: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): in writeCrashedAppName, pkgName :com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:06.980: D/AndroidRuntime(28151): file written successfully with content: com.example.killthemall StringBuffer : ;com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:06.990: I/Process(28151): Sending signal. PID: 28151 SIG: 9 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.killthemall/com.example.killthemall.Game}: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:880) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:638) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.example.killthemall.Game$KhogenView.<init>(Game.java:96) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at com.example.killthemall.Game.onCreate(Game.java:58) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611) 08-22 23:18:06.990: E/AndroidRuntime(28151): ... 11 more 08-22 23:18:18.050: D/AndroidRuntime(28191): Shutting down VM 08-22 23:18:18.050: W/dalvikvm(28191): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb3f6f4f0) 08-22 23:18:18.050: I/Process(28191): Sending signal. PID: 28191 SIG: 9 08-22 23:18:18.050: D/AndroidRuntime(28191): procName from cmdline: com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): in writeCrashedAppName, pkgName :com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:18.050: D/AndroidRuntime(28191): file written successfully with content: com.example.killthemall StringBuffer : ;com.example.killthemall 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.killthemall/com.example.killthemall.Game}: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:880) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:638) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.example.killthemall.Game$KhogenView.<init>(Game.java:96) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at com.example.killthemall.Game.onCreate(Game.java:58) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1049) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611) 08-22 23:18:18.050: E/AndroidRuntime(28191): ... 11 more

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• Is there an easy to script 2d game world?

  - by Sandro

  For a school project we're developing a game that's a little like Conway's game of life, with different organisms taking up slots in the world and then eating each other. I would like to see this take place in a 2d world. Like being able to take starcraft and have zergling and marines play roles. The problem with starcraft is that the whole algorithm would have to be written inside of the game editor, and starcraft isn't free or open source. So is there another engine that is starcraft/warcraft/AOE-ish that can be scripted from outside of the game and is freely available? (I'm asking a lot here I know)

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• If I wanted to make a Pac-Man Game?

  - by SoulBeaver

  I am immediately placing this as a community wiki thing. I don't want to ask for help in programming yet or have even a specific question about programming, but rather the process and the resources needed to make such a game. To put it simply: My college friend and I decided to give ourselves a really big challenge to further our skills in programming. In six months time we want to show ourselves a Pac-Man game. Pac-Man will be AI-controlled like the Ghosts and whichever Pac-Man lives the longest after a set of tries wins. This isn't like anything we've done so far. The goal here, for me, isn't to create a perfect game, but to try and complete it, learn a whole bunch in the process. Even if I don't finish in the time, which is a good possibility, I would want to have at least tried this. So my question is this: How should I start preparing myself? I already have started vector math, matrices, all that fun stuff. My desired platform would be DirectX 9.0c; is that advisable? Keep in mind that this is not a preference just for this project, but I wish to have some kind of future in graphics develepment, so I want to pick a platform that is future-safe. As for the game development in general, what should I take into consideration? I have never done a real game before, so any and all advise to development of mid-scale projects( if this would be a mid-scale project ) is greatly appreciated. My main concerns are the pit-falls and demotivators. Sorry if the question is so vague. If it doesn't belong here, then I will remove it. Otherwise, any and all advise regarding making larger projects is greatly appreciated.

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• What is the best XNA book, which can teach you the 2d & 3d game programming from basic to advance?

  - by Setve

  1- What is the best XNA book, which can teach the 2d & 3d game programming from basic to advance? Is it possible after reading that book create professional looking 3d games??? 2- Any suggestion how can become professional game developer with XNA, and create cool 3d games? 3- Is it XNA industry standard for creating games? 4- Is it any work place can join as XNA game developer?

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• Does it make the game more fun when the user is forced to progress thru the levels sequentially rather than letting them pick and play?

  - by BeachRunnerJoe

  Hello. For the first time in my game, I'm stuck with a real design dilemma. I guess that's a good thing ;) I'm building a word puzzle game that has five levels, each with 30 puzzles. Currently, the user has to solve one puzzle at a time before moving to the next. However, I'm finding the user occasionally gets stuck on a puzzle, at which point they can no longer play until they solve it. This is obviously bad because many people will just quit playing the game and delete the app since they get frustrated and can't play any other puzzles until the current puzzle is solved. The only elegant solution I can find to helping the player get unstuck is changing the design of the game to allow the users to pick any puzzle to play at any time. This way, if they get stuck, they can come back to it later and at least they have other puzzles to play in the meantime. It's my opinion, however, that this new flow design doesn't make the game as fun as the original flow design where the player has to complete a puzzle before moving to the next. To me, it's like anything else, when you only have one of something, it's more enjoyable, but when you have 30 of something, it's far less enjoyable. In fact, when I present the user with 30 puzzles to choose from that they need to solve before unlocking the next level, it almost seems as tho I'm making them feel like it's work they have to do. I even had a tester voluntarily tell me that being forced to complete a puzzle before moving to the next is more motivating. My questions are... Do you agree/disagree? Do you have any suggestions for how I can help the player get unstuck? Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts! EDIT: I should mention that I've already considered a few other solutions to helping the user get unstuck, but none of them seem like good ideas. They are... Add more hints: Currently, the user gets two hints per puzzle. If I increase the hint count, it only makes the game more easy and still leaves the possibility of the user getting stuck. Add a "Show Solution" button: This seems like a bad idea because it's my opinion this takes the fun out of the game for many people who would probably otherwise solve the puzzle if they didn't have the quick option to see the solution.

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• Does it make the game more fun when the user is forced to progress through the levels sequentially rather than letting them pick and play?

  - by BeachRunnerJoe

  Hello. For the first time in my game, I'm stuck with a real design dilemma. I guess that's a good thing ;) I'm building a word puzzle game that has five levels, each with 30 puzzles. Currently, the user has to solve one puzzle at a time before moving to the next. However, I'm finding the user occasionally gets stuck on a puzzle, at which point they can no longer play until they solve it. This is obviously bad because many people will probably just quit playing the game and delete the app. The only elegant solution I can find to helping the player get unstuck is changing the design of the game to allow the users to pick any puzzle to play at any time. This way, if they get stuck, they can come back to it later and at least they have other puzzles to play in the meantime. It's my opinion, however, that this new flow design doesn't make the game as fun as the original flow design where the player has to complete a puzzle before moving to the next. To me, it's like anything else, when you only have one of something, it's more enjoyable, but when you have 30 of something, it's far less enjoyable. In fact, when I present the user with 30 puzzles to choose from, I'm concerned I might be making them feel like it's a lot of work they have to do and that's bad. I even had a tester voluntarily tell me that being forced to complete a puzzle before moving to the next is actually motivating. My questions are... Do you agree/disagree? Do you have any suggestions for how I can help the player get unstuck? Thanks so much in advance for your thoughts! EDIT: I should mention that I've already considered a few other solutions to helping the user get unstuck, but none of them seem like good ideas. They are... Add more hints: Currently, the user gets two hints per puzzle. If I increase the hint count, it only makes the game more easy and still leaves the possibility of the user getting stuck. Add a "Show Solution" button: This seems like a bad idea because it's my opinion this takes the fun out of the game for many people who would probably otherwise solve the puzzle if they didn't have the quick option to see the solution.

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• Entity/Component based engine rendering separation from logic

  - by Denis Narushevich

  I noticed in Unity3D that each gameObject(entity) have its own renderer component, as far I understand, such component handle rendering logic. I wonder if it is a common practice in entity/component based engines, when single entity have renderer components and logic components such as position, behavior altogether in one box? Such approach sound odd to me, in my understanding entity itself belongs to logic part and shouldn't contain any render specific things inside. With such approach it is impossible to swap renderers, it would require to rewrite all that customized renderers. The way I would do it is, that entity would contain only logic specific components, like AI,transform,scripts plus reference to mesh, or sprite. Then some entity with Camera component would store all references to object that is visible to the camera. And in order to render all that stuff I would have to pass Camera reference to Renderer class and render all sprites,meshes of visible entities. Is such approach somehow wrong?

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• How to manage own bots at the server?

  - by Nikolay Kuznetsov

  There is a game server and people can play in game rooms of 2, 3 or 4. When a client connects to server he can send a request specifying a number of people or range he wants to play with. One of this value is valid: {2-4, 2-3, 3-4, 2, 3, 4} So the server maintains 3 separate queues for game room with 2, 3 and 4 people. So we can denote queues as #2, #3 and #4. It work the following way. If a client sends request, 3-4, then two separate request are added to queues #3 and #4. If queue #3 now have 3 requests from different people then game room with 3 players is created, and all other requests from those players are removed from all queues. Right now not many people are online simultaneously, so they apply for a game wait for some time and quit because game does not start in a reasonable time. That's a simple bot for beginning has been developed. So there is a need to patch server code to run a bot, if some one requests a game, but humans are not online. Input: request from human {2-4, 2-3, 3-4, 2, 3, 4} Output: number of bots to run and time to wait for each before connecting, depending on queues state. The problem is that I don't know how to manage bots properly at the server? Example: #3 has 1 request and #4 has 1 request Request from user is {3,4} then server can add one bot to play game with 3 people or two bots to play game of 4. Example: #3 has 1 request and #4 has 2 requests Request from user is {3,4} then in each case just one bot is needed so game with 4 players is more preferrable.

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