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  • How can I refactor my code to use fewer singletons?

    - by fish
    I started a component based, networked game (so far only working on the server). I know why singletons can be bad, but I can't think of another way to implement the same thing. So far I have: A GameState singleton (for managing the global state of the game, i.e. pre-game, running, exiting). A World singleton, which is the root entity for my entity graph An EntityFactory A ComponentFactory I'm thinking about adding a "MessageDispatcher" so individual components can subscribe to network messages. The factories do not have state, so I suppose they aren't so bad. However, the others do have global state, which is asking for trouble. How can I refactor my code so it uses fewer singletons?

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  • 24 Extra Hot Free Linux Games (Part 2 of 3)

    <b>LinuxLinks:</b> "Now, let's scrutinize the 8 games at hand. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth analysis of the features of the game, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

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  • (Phaser) Preload Future States in Create?

    - by Brian
    I'm a first time user of Phaser, been trying to make a simple point and click type game. I'm trying to keep things very modular, so I'm defining a list of levels (states) in a JSON, and then every level has its own JSON containing the objects within that level. However, I'm encountering an issue in that, when changing states, I get a black flash while the assets for the next state load (this happens whether I iterate through the JSON list or define everything manually). From what I've read, all sprites should be loaded in the preload stage, however, by doing this I'm causing that tiny but noticeable black pause. I know one way would be to simply load every asset at the start of the game, but that seems incredibly inefficient (wouldn't that fill up the memory immensely?). I would rather load a state's assets from the "parent" state. However, in my quick test (which maybe I did wrong) it seems that game.load doesn't work properly if done within the create stage? What is the best approach to doing this?

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  • How can I ensure reasonably spaced out enemies

    - by Samuraisoulification
    I have a simple javascript game and I'm initializing their positions on the y axis using random numbers. How can I ensure that they are reasonably spaced apart? My simple algorithm is: y = (Math.random()*1000%600); However I frequently get enemies almost directly on top of each other. This is a huge problem for the game, since it's a word game and the enemies have text on their center, that if overlapped makes them impossible to kill since you can't see the words. Any advice would be appreciated! I'm pretty new to making games in general so this has all been a learning experience for me!

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  • Where to generate data in an Entity-Component System?

    - by Mark Mandel
    So I'm making a small game where I generate 2D landscape using perlin noise when the game first loads. I've got it working in a OO way, but want to move over to an ES architecure, and I'm just struggling to work out the right place for the code that does the generation to go? In OO world, I have a World object which gets passes a coordinate value that is used as the seed for the perlin noise, and generates all the points for the land mass when the world is created. I'm thinking I need a World component with a coordinate field on it - that's an easy part. From there - is it right for a component to generate data when it's first initialised (or is that too OO?)? Or should a System be doing that instead, when the game first starts? Or... some other solution I'm not aware of? Thanks in advance for any guidance.

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  • Effective Website Search Engine Optimization - What Does That Mean?

    The Internet has become a very busy place. It's also become a sort of global marketplace where people all over the world come to buy and sell goods. Not much new to anyone in that statement, but it does beg the question, what's the best way for you to find customers both locally to Saskatoon and globally... and let them know you're online?

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  • How can I derive force vectors from velocity vectors?

    - by PixelRouter
    I'm making a 2d shooter ala Geometry Wars. I've got my own simple physics at work driving the background grid and all my entities. To move anything in the world I apply a Vector2d force to it. The 'engine' calculates the resulting acceleration and therefore the velocity. I am trying to port some code I found which implements the classic 'Boids' flocking algorithm, but the code I have works by calculating the Boids' velocities directly, so If i use it as is, it bypasses my physics engine. How I can translate the velocity vectors into force vectors that I can apply to the Boids and which will result in the proper velocities via my physics engine.

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  • Search Engine Optimization PR - Is it Buzz Worthy Or Over Hyped?

    Public Relations (PR) is a business practice that plays a pivotal role in defining a business' relationship with its employees, customers, and shareholders. Good PR strengthens brands and builds the public's trust in it - the primary reason most businesses have PR professionals to take care of public communications such as conferences, press releases, social media engagement, crisis communication, and media and employee communications.

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  • VS2010 is a game changer with WPF & Silverlight/WP7 Silverlight.

    With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft makes crystal clear that they are pushing Silverlight to be the platform for developers to use to write it once, run everywhere. What started as a browser plug in, has become the Microsoft standard to provide developers the tools to write and distribute their applications. If you didnt attend the #MIX10 like me, you still can watch all the videos, hoping Microsoft fixed the bandwidth problem, to find for yourself about the common message from Microsoft...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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  • XNA Load/Unload logic (contentmanager?)

    - by Rhinan
    I am trying to make a point-and-click adventure game with XNA, starting off simple. My experience with XNA is about a month old now, know how the classes and inheritance works (basic stuff). I have a problem where I cannot understand how I should load and unload the textures and game objects in the game, when the player transitions to another level. I've googled this 10 times, but all I find is hard coding while I don't even understand the basics of unloading yet. All I want, is transitioning to another level (replacing all the sprites with new ones). Thanks in advance

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  • 24 Extra Hot Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3)

    <b>LinuxLinks:</b> "Now, let's scrutinize the 8 games at hand. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth analysis of the features of the game, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

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  • Implementing a Risk-style board

    - by pouzzler
    I have two images of the same dimensions. One is represents the game board in a user-appealing way, the other represents it in a computer-friendly way where each game area is painted in a unique, uniform color. When the user clicks the board, we get the click coordinates, find the color of the pixel at the same coordinates in our second image, and that color is directly translatable to a game area, since each area is painted in its own color. Is that a good implementation? Can you suggest better, if it isn't? Best regards.

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  • What Makes an Effective Search Engine Optimization Marketing Campaign?

    In the recent years, the Internet has increasingly become popular as a marketing tool. More so, it even gives traditional marketing and advertising channels a run for their money because of its ability to attract millions of customers. This fact can be attributed to the growing number of Internet users around the world who look for information online.

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  • How SEO Will Change Your Business

    The best way through which they have managed to dominate the top search engine placements have been with carrying out online marketing also known as search engine optimization. SEO or search engine optimization is one of the foremost breakthroughs in online marketing where SEO companies help websites and companies rank on the top pages of all search engine queries.

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