Development is undertaken by a game developer, which may range from a single person to a large business. Mainstream games are normally funded by a publisher and take several years to develop. Indie games can take less time and can be produced cheaply by individuals and small developers. The indie ...
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What's the proper way to organize ViewControllers and XIB?
I am developing a very simple iPhone game with this view hierarchy:
Main Menu View
└> New Game View
| └> Player vs Computer Game View
| | └> Pause View
| | └> End ...
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How do I get a job as a game developer?
I'm an entry-level programmer just out of college. As I've found out, I don't really enjoy working on "boring" applications like networking, firewalls, and such.
My dream job would be something like ...
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Using Quadratic Bezier Curves to generate a cave that stays within certain bounds
I'm working on a project that generates a series of quadratic bezier curves and connects them together, maintaining slope from the end of one segment to the beginning of the next to make the ...
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Most efficient way of finding entities in a grid?
I'm working on my first game; a tower defense. So far It's coming along nicely. The only issue I am having (so far) is I can't figure out a way to effciently discover if an entity has entered a towers ...
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I'm a iOS developer and I want to learn game programming
I programmed for the iphone (and a bit for mac) for the last 1 or 2 years and now I want to learn Java.
I know OOP and am also farmiliar with a bit of the c syntax!
Are there any books like java for ...
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advices to work for mobile agencies? [closed]
i would like to work as a obj-c developer but i don't really see which way to head to : games or apps for companies, I have not really found many job advertisings for "games developer", or if it's ...
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Downloadable Game vs Non-Downloadable
I want to make a networked building game with limited physics(just for the characters) and I wanted to know what the best route would be. I was looking at a browser based Java game or a downloadable ...
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How can I shift from PHP to Python? [closed]
I am a website developer, and I am proficient in PHP, but I want to shift into game and software development using Python.
Is such a transition easy? What are the common pitfalls one should look out ...
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How difficult would it be to interact with a Facebook poker game?
There is an online facebook flash poker game. This game is constantly sending and receiving information to the player's browser about all the things going on in the game. How hard would it be for a ...
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Beginner understanding game programming
I have always been interested in gaming and I have a reasonable amount of programming experience. While I have read strategies like Divide and Conquer, greedy approach and other principles, how do I ...
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What could be my path? Networking, programming, or something else? [closed]
Well first and foremost, I would like to give my brief description: I was an aviation student but I didn't pursue that path because I lost my interest. Now I'm an I.T. student and currently stopped ...
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Understanding how Code works is the way to actually 'Learn' programming, right?
I have a friend who is struggling with learning how to program (he wants to make games; as do I). Several books, tutorials, etc.
His mentality is he has to memorize the code itself, as in the exact ...
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Game-dev-oriented Code Kata? [closed]
(I ask here because gamedev.stackexchange.net isn't as exposed to programmers as this site)
Code Kata are good programming exercises ( see Code Kata ).
I think the provided exercices are good for ...
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I've been hired on as a entry-level game developer at a company and have little/no experience in API programming, what should I expect? [duplicate]
So, I've been hired on as an entry level game developer with little/no experience working with any API other than Win32. This will be an overall learning experience for me as a person and I have gone ...
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How long and what type of complexity would have been involved in Chris Sawyer writing most of rollercoaster tycoon in assembler?
From this question, I have another question about...
How long and what type of complexity would have been involved in Chris Sawyer writing most of rollercoaster tycoon in assembler?
In order to ...
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What hardware/software tools were used to build commercial quality 8-bits games?
I mean, I still have a MSX2 with a Z80 processor and if you look at any Konami's game made for that computer in its time (roughly between '84 and '90) is amazing the high quality code of those games. ...
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Is video game programming usually physics related?
I know this is obviously not true for some games, minesweeper, card games, etc. But what about any game involving simulating the real world environment. Obviously these games have some form of a ...
