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unity - Holding "Shift" to lock mouse movements to a straight line? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I'm making a little program that's a bit like paint but instead of filling in pixels, it drops a block on mousebutton(0). I'm now trying to add a straight line toggle on it to make the mouse only m...
publishing - What's the minimum viable product to present a game to a publisher? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I am currently working on a puzzle game. I am aiming in the future to ask a publisher to publish it. What do you think could be the minimum viable product to reach before sending it. I am talking a...
procedural generation - What are some different ways that tiles are stored in a game during runtime - Game Development Stack Exchange
I am making a 2d rpg game that uses tiles to store the terrain data. Also the map is procedural generated infinite world type. I saw an approach called clipmaps to make the scrolling of the world m...
architecture - How to Handle Complex Side Effects and Event Sequencing in a Turn-Based Game Like XCOM? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I'm trying to make a turn-based game like XCOM, and I've run into an architectural problem that I haven't been able to solve for quite a long time. In my game, logic is completely separated from
c++ - PGS solver leads to boxes spinning out of control or sliding out of stacks - Game Development Stack Exchange
I'm trying to implement a PGS solver for collision response, but I'm currently stuck. How the problem manifests is, for the example of a box resting on the ground, if the box is given a small rotat...
directx - Does Direct3D have hardware-dependant extensions like OpenGL? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I am not familiar with Direct3D and I want to know if it has hardware and vendor dependant functions like the extensions in OpenGL? A program written by a friend fails on certain computers while i...
unity - Is it ok to return a call to itself inside a method that has a return type? - Game Development Stack Exchange
Hello all I am making a little blackjack game in Unity. Although these classes don't actually use Monobehaviour or anything just yet. I have this method and I'm not sure it will work like this or ...
shaders - Post process effect with sphere mask is offset until the window is resized - Game Development Stack Exchange
I am having a weird issue with the position of my sphere mask. Here is what it looks like currently: The white disc should be directly under the player character, not shifted off to the side. Resi...
unity - Shrink a Circle's Radius Without Deformation Until It's a Solid Spot - Game Development Stack Exchange
I need to shrink the radius of a ring without deforming it by shrinking it's outline(the way scaling it would). I need to do this until the hollow fill is gone and its a solid spot. Here's an examp...
unity - Are segmented characters viable? Are there any future complications I watch out for? - Game Development Stack Exchange
For context, I'm almost a total beginner when it comes to the Unity Engine and game dev with some programming knowledge. As I have already tried to develop games many times in the past, but I lacke...
directx12 - How to debug: "D3D12 WARNING: Process is terminating. Using simple reporting." - Game Development Stack Exchange
I have an interop program with DX12 resources, and it exits with: The thread 15720 has exited with code 1 (0x1). The thread '.NET TP Worker' (23880) has exited with code 1 (0x1). The thread 'Stylus
path finding - Is Jump Point Search (A* with JPS) appliable to non-diagonal grids? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I'm trying to speed up my pathfinding and discovered A* with JPS. It basically prunes tiles before adding them to the OPEN set. Can I use that technique with my grid that only allows straight dire...
unity - How to Have Tiles of Different Materials on Single Tilemap - Game Development Stack Exchange
I'm developing a tile-based game where some of the tiles have unique materials (generally to avoid repetitive patterns by sampling a large or procedural texture using world space coordinates). Howe...
depth buffer - Can't write DepthBuffer — result is completely white - Game Development Stack Exchange
I am new to DX12 and I am currently trying to get the depth buffer to work. I have done pretty much everything identical to blog posts I've seen online. I can also see that the depthbuffer-texture is
unity - How to calculate the border hexagons in a grid with blocking elements? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I have a hexagon grid with cubic coordinates. I want to calculate clockwise all border hexagons for a given movement range. At the moment, I am iterating every neighbor that is not in the range and...
Efficiently passing data to the GPU corresponding to a collection of objects - Game Development Stack Exchange
I am beginning to work on a physics system, where there are multiple objects in the world that get rendered. The current approach I am considering consists of pseudo-OOP in C where each object has ...
unity - localPosition for UI object gives different results from its values in the script - Game Development Stack Exchange
Here is my script for opening animation. It basically sets the localPosition of an object out of the screen and then brings back in smoothly. The problem is I got different localPosition results in...
javascript - Is it common/advisable to deploy a game using HTML for the frontend but also provide a backend native? - Game Development Stack Exchange
As a proof of concept I'd like to create the UI of a boardgame using SVG and HTML, so I can deploy it in desktop through Electron, mobile using Cordova and also hosting it in a website. I also have
unity - Best approach for 360-degree shooting mechanics in a 2D top-down 3/4 perspective game? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I’m working on a 2D top-down game with a 3/4 perspective, and I’m trying to implement a 360-degree shooting system where the player can aim and shoot in any direction. The main challenge I’m facing...
python - Is this numerical cellular automaton an efficient way of simulating water or smoke? - Game Development Stack Exchange
I'm not a game dev. However I've just created what I believe may be an original means of creating realistic-enough water or fire/smoke textures, which may perhaps in principle (and using a different