Mobile Game Reviews: Let's Talk Tentacles - Enter the Mind
In this daily blog (and video)-series I take a first impressions look at the best mobile games that I come by. Be sure to share your favorite mobile game with the rest of us in the comments below!...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Beginner
Hello everyone, So I now officially decided use VS 2017 I would love to use all the functions it has to offer for me. Like creating desktop app, mobile apps, graphics, games and such. I have been doing...
View ArticleDirectCompute thread groups
Is [numthreads(1, GROUP_SIZE, GROUP_SIZE)] as efficient as [numthreads(GROUP_SIZE, GROUP_SIZE, 1)] ? CUDA confused me by disabling their z dimension.
View ArticleHelp with Collision Detection on endless platform runner
Hi everyone, I've made a small java game recently, just for education purpose. So this game is a endless scrolling 2D plaformer. all you can do is jumping, with the impulse force to it. So the basic is...
View ArticleDesigning the optimum skilltree system
I have designed a skilltree system for an upcoming game proposal. I'm exited about it because it solves an innate problem of the basic skilltree design, namely the fact that players end up investing...
View ArticleConstness questions
Hello, I have a few questions about constness in AS. I do like const both in C++ and AS because it helps with maintainability, but I was wondering how it could change performance for some cases I...
View ArticleWhere to purchase multitrack music loops?
In my research I've been able to find plenty of sites that provide royalty-free music available for purchase. But most of these tend to provide a single audio file with every instrument track already...
View ArticleCritique my first game (article as a bonus)
Hello everyone! In the end of October I released my first game: Totem Spirits Check out one-minute Promo video Would love to hear your feedback about the product! As a bonus here is the article I wrote...
View ArticleSaying Hello; Tips are Welcome
Hi there! I'm Kvie. I'm currently quite overwhelmed at the prospect of trying to make games, but I'm all for it. I mostly just wanted to introduce myself, and I hope that's appropriate for this forum!...
View ArticleLooking for Partcipants/Game developers for my Study
Hello, I am researcher from University of Phoenix. I have received permission from this site to post about permission to recruit subjects for participation in a study entitled Cyber Threats to Online...
View ArticleRetro FPS Avatars - 8-Direction Sprite System
Retro FPS Avatars is an system to create and control 8-direction sprites in First Person Shooter style games.It is my own implementation of systems that has been used in oldschool FPS games.I have been...
View ArticleJannik Lorenzen (Web Developer)
Hey there! Jannik - that's me. I'm a freelance web developer since March 2016 and was a regular, employed web developer before - total experience - about five years. What can I help you with? Well,...
View ArticleData access layer design for games
Hi, I'm trying to refactor my data access code so that it's as clean as possible. Though I'm not looking to use MVC pattern in my project, I still want my code to be well organised and as of right now,...
View ArticleIssue: Exporting from MagicaVoxel
Description; I am a designer currently working on the video game Colony 7. The purpose of the blog is to address the issues of the game's development and to address any solutions or alternative methods...
View ArticleVariadic templates and tuples of wrapped types
What I want to do is make a variadic class template that instantiates (as a member variable) a std::tuple of objects, one entry in the tuple for each type in the parameter pack of the variadic...
View ArticleWeapon Design Document Suggestions
So I'm in the stage of designing weapons for one of my games and I would like some suggestions on the layout of the documents. For example: I know that the documents should have the weapon name, stats,...
View ArticleLooking to make music for a game.
So i've worked on my own incomplete projects before, But i think i love making music than art for videogames nowadays. (I have my own game i'm trying to develop with a partner on the side, but things...
View ArticleNeed feedback for project named NOWhere
Hello everyone I wanna introduce my personal project named NOWhere first time. I posted earlier briefly with only screenshot, but now, I attach more detail description and video.AbstractThis story is...
View ArticleIs Phil Fish a Jerk?
So I was watching part two of Indie Game: the Movie a week or so ago and thought to myself "this guy's a total dick". But after a week or so I'm still wondering if Phil Fish is really a jerk, or if he...
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