Elysian Shadows

I don't personally use an entity based system but here's the first approach that comes to mind. - Store a string containing the name of the component in each component class (or virtual method you can overload to return a string) - Instead of using a vector in your Entity class to hold components, u...

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It's hard to suggest much without knowing the specifics of your game. I don't have experience with Dreamcast but I'm assuming you're currently using 32-bit textures? Try reducing to 16-bit or 8-bit palleted textures if possible. Also make sure you're freeing your local copy of image/pixel data after...

Looks good, keep it up. Strong STI it looks like you're driving there.

What are the results if you omit using any model or camera transforms and multiply the vertices of an on-screen quad by just the ortho matrix?

Have you considered using the NSError class? This seems to be the recommended approach. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSError_Class/Reference/Reference.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4654653/how-can-i-use-nserror-in-my-iphone-app A...

I've been working on a game for the past year that I plan to release on iOS/Android. Up until this point I've neglected to do any sort of meaningful error handling. Typically, I'll simply have my functions return false on error and basically close down the app. I know if I don't take steps now to in...

Try these 2 changes: void Matrix4f::InitOrthoProjTransform(float left, float right, float top, float bottom, float zNear, float zFar) { m[0][0] = 2 / (right - left); m[0][1] = 0; m[0][2] = 0; m[0][3] = 0; m[1][0] = 0; m[1][1] = 2 / (top - bottom); m[1][2] = 0; m[1][3] = 0; m[2][0] = 0; m[2][1] = 0; ...

Good work :) One thing I would suggest is to always make sure you add some design elements to your game that allow for replayability. In this case, I think you could use some simple rules to procedurally generate unique levels instead of having just a single level. Perhaps even add support for level...

Well apparently the "scanf" function just doesn't work very well with getting inputs in a loop. Ended up using "sscanf" with an input string instead. Now it works. I think the problem you're having is because scanf will just read the newline character the second time you call it...

Haven't personally used these functions but what happens if you switch it to:

sscanf_s(input.c_str(),"%c %d", &inputX, sizeof(inputX), &inputY);

I actually wrote somewhat of a tutorial on the subject of building a 2D rigid body physics engine (it's not finalized). I've attached the section I wrote on finding contact points for polygon-polygon collisions, it should be of help. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them. If it's not t...

I actually wrote somewhat of a tutorial on the subject of building a 2D rigid body physics engine (it's not finalized). I've attached the section I wrote on finding contact points for polygon-polygon collisions, it should be of help. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them.

Java is perfectly fine for game development. In my experience the main thing you need to worry about is being careful with your allocation/deallocation strategy so the garbage collector doesn't come into play and cause large delays during gameplay. Not quite sure what you were getting at with the fa...

I looked at it again today, same issue. I'm using XCode 4.2 which uses LLVM 3.0 btw. I realize it's a C++ 0x feature, I'm just surprised at the fact that it compiles without an issue but simply does not initialize the damn strings. I'm guessing it's just a bug in this version?