Elysian Shadows

Thanks for clearing that up - though that brings another question to mind. My framework is in C# and I'm currently using structs to represent tiles. It's an approach I'd seen recommended elsewhere. Each struct contains a static constant width and height, a texture reference, and a collision enum rep...

For the platformer I'm working on I'm building the framework around a Entity-Component model. However, I'm trying to decide whether I should treat tiles as Entities or as their own thing. A pure approach would be to treat them as Component-based Entities because nothing in the game environment "...

I was looking over the screens and concepts posted earlier and was curious if the larger character had some sort of jetpack as part of his back? It sort of looks like a jetpack to me 8-) . Also, is one of the premier features of the game the throwing mechanic because I could see some really cool th...

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Sometimes you just need to work through it all again by explaining it to someone else to find your own bugs.

Thanks! We had an amazing artist with a background in illustration and another art-savvy programmer who whipped up the spritesheets, music, and sfx. We have a level-builder tool that reads in notepad files and builds the levels tile by tile from them. Our designer would build levels (and wound up bu...

I wanted to show off pictures of my new baby created over the weekend. It's the product of a team 6 and their passion, talent, hard work, and copious intake of caffeine. I bring to you Rez+Cue: http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/405633_300960999953381_130607666988716_850367_375404552_n.j...

Find the coordinates of the corners of your bounding rect (this will work even if you decide to use rotations later, just the math for finding the corner will be more involved). Check which corners intersect. Depending upon if you want a physical pushback or to just land squarely on the tile, you ca...

Depending upon what languages and paradigms you're adhering to: Typically, I found the best way to squeeze things out quick for school projects or in a production environment while retaining reasonable maintainability for later was to use lots of comments while trying hard to break code into logical...

Growing up playing games with my friends from a young age, a love of music, having a father into technology and business, a mother who believes strongly in higher education, pokemon, a profound tendency to ask "why", and a resentment for undeserved authority. Growing up with games because ...

I've also moved on more to phone development from XNA. Been working with MonoDroid and MonoTouch so I can do cross-platform phone development using C# while hitting Android, iPhone, and WP7. My recent ambitions have been more social networking/business-oriented than game-oriented, but that passion s...

GyroVorbis wrote:Holy JESUS, you like namespaces... It's like being at work...

It's like programming in Java again.

The thing is, it's more about the allocation and access of that memory than using up the memory. Modern computers have a ton of memory - and just because a new computer isn't using all 8 GB of available memory doesn't mean it won't take a performance hit by using more. If you're running an intensive...

I don't think doing things from scratch is a bad habit so much as one approach. The question is, what are you aiming towards? If you want to learn low level fundamentals, writing stuff from scratch is great and you'll learn a lot of really good stuff. If you want to work on rapid prototyping or gett...

I'm pretty sure most emulators don't take advantage of hardware acceleration at all. On top of that, there's an extra layer of abstraction for the different instruction sets on other hardware. I can still get 2D games and 3D games like Ocarina of Time running smoothly.

If you have data that is declared in a higher scope, and it remains persistent over multiple iterations of a block of code, is there a good way of guaranteeing caching of that data? Here's an example of what I mean: void update() { var x = a.someMethod()->GetX().ToPolar().Invert(); var *y = new Zomb...