I’ve been trying to find a tutorial on how to best make animations in Android. I already have some animations for my enemies and my character that are controlled by rectangles and changing rectangleframe between updates using a picture like this: When I’m shooting my enemies they lose HP, and when their HP == 0 … Read more
I am writing a simple game where some things happen after some amount of time. I used simple time analog of the framework I use to schedule these events, however, I have found that I will not be able to pause the game because the time is continuously increasing and nothing can stop it. So … Read more
I’m developing a 3D tower defense-like game in C++/OpenGL on Windows. The problem I’m having isn’t about the game itself (the game runs fine), but it’s about using screen recording software to record gameplay. For some reason, whenever I try to record the screen (I’ve tried both Camtasia Studio 8 and Fraps 3.5.9), it slows … Read more
In my project, I call nanoTime and use that to get a deltaTime which I pass to my entities and animations. However, while debugging (for example, stepping through my code), the system time on my phone is happily chugging along, so it’s impossible to look at, say, two sequential frames of data in the debugger … Read more
I have an array of sprites that are displayed in-order to make an animation. There is code in an update loop that has access to a value ‘time’ indicating how far along the animation is. Time is a float between 0 and 1 inclusive. It uses this value to calculate which frame to display. update(time) … Read more
Problem Description Basically, I’ve made a “programming game” in which I’ve made my own scripting language. It is a completely standard Lunar Lander game, though instead of directly controlling the lander using keyboard input, it instead fires a sequence of commands you have provided through the scripting language I made. This all works, and I’ve … Read more
I’ve made a simple 2D game engine using C# and DirectX and it’s fully functional for the demo I made to test it. I have a Timer object that uses QueryPerformanceCounter and I don’t know what’s the better choice: use only one timer in the game loop to update everything in the game, or an … Read more
So I’ve reached the point in my exploration of gaming where I’d like to implement the concept of time into my little demo I’ve been building. What are some common methodologies for creating the concept of time passing within a game? My thoughts so far: My game loop tends to spend a fair amount of … Read more
I’m trying to create a browser-based game (made in PHP, MySQL, Js, HTML, and CSS) that is heavily dependent on user’s actions being carried out after a certain amount of time passed whether online or offline. Will running cron jobs every second/minute a good practice or a solution to my problem? Please check out this … Read more
I am having an issue with XNA, where I want to execute some code in my Update method, but only at a given interval, and only once. I would like to avoid booleans to check if I’ve already called it once, if possible. My code is here: if ((gameTime.TotalGameTime.TotalMilliseconds % 500) == 0) { Caret.Visible … Read more
