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Values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items.

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In the video you''ll see I change the Time Countdown to 500, but when the game is running the value is 15. I've had this issue before, and re-created the script / prefab from scratch. Can someone help ...
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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 ...
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I'm trying to create a simple pie chart for my game (a strategy/simulation game) to show population demographic data for a province, but I'm struggling to figure out how to detect which slice is being ...
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If I have a lot of data to save, say 500 ints for how many stars a user has collected, some text for user created levels, settings, etc. What would be the best method to save all of this? Should I use ...
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How can I serialize a C# object (class, struct, etc) to a file without that file being easy to read? Binary Formatter First I used the Binary Formatter, which worked really well, but there were a lot ...
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I am trying to find a way to keep my "key" data from 1 scene to another. While removing the key from the first scene, and keeping the information of the coin being collected onto my next ...
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Question inspired by the accepted answer to another question: Wondering if there is a more efficient way to store level data in my game? The answer, by @Evorlor, says: You should have the data for ...
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I need to create a lot of read-only text data. As far as I know storing a lot of data directly in the script is not good, so I need to create a separate json file with ready-made data to load in the ...
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I have found numerous examples of exporting Unity terrain to programs like Blender or just importing digital elevation files (DEMs) into Unity. But can a terrain generated in Unity be exported into ...
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I have a problem which I'm sure can be abstracted to some larger concept but I don't really have the knowledge to know what to google. I'll just explain what im trying to do and if you can please tell ...
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Most of the numeric quantities used in games (aside from integers for counting or indexing objects) are single-precision floating point. This is IEEE format, which allows for numbers as big as 1e38 ...
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I am writing up my work and I'm trying to think of a word, or phrase, that better describes a 'partial load' of data. In my case, I have one very large file that is "environment A". To ...
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Here is the situation: I have 10 weapons in my game, in main menu player may choose only two weapons that could take to the game, and this information about two weapons will save in a kind of "...
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In mobile game development there are types of data that are not user save-data but are necessary for the game, we call it GM files. In my specific case, the GM files include text data such as "...
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I recently read this answer on this site, which says the following: making sure no allocation/deallocation is being done while the game is running is a golden rule of thumb. I interpret this as ...
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I've been using JSON to store a lot of my game's data. I love it compared to my previous workflow. Having a human-readable hierarchy of arbitrary information is a godsend. My needs have grown more ...
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I am currently practicing game design and development by implementing singular (or a small set) of mechanics in Unity. For example, -- and this is relevant towards the end -- I've just finished a ...
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I store 2D animation frames in some class. But the problem is that when I want to create multiple objects for example I want to spawn explosion or enemy ...
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I am making a small game where I store information about the world around the player (like tiles) using a small 2d array of integers. In the game you can scroll the screen to the left or right. I also ...
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So this question is code or engine agnostic but, I’m looking for ideas on how a game can keep track of a pre-determined number of factions or alliances. For example, say I made a space game that has 2 ...
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When developers plan and decide on new buffs and nerfs, do they gather information from online game matches, recorded secretly from their servers' data feeds and reconstructed / analyzed offline - for ...
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I have a broad question, hopefully I'll synthesize it well. I've been looking for the best way to store the standard data of my project. So far, I've found 4 possible answers to my problem: Binary ...
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I'm moving from an old game dev tool to Unity, and wondering how to go about handling external data files. In my previous program I'd set up external (txt/ini) files like this: ...
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Is there any good workflow/tooling for having good version control on spreadsheets for game data? Ideally something that supports branching or merging. Google spreadsheets allow people to edit data ...
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I am kinda new to Multiplayer Games and I am really wondering how I should handle my data Should each player send and update their data to the database (server) everytime one of their essential ...
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I'm absolutely fascinated by the management games, such as Football Manager, with dozens of spreadsheets and thousand of pieces of data. Coding it all in Unity, especially for a prototype, feels like ...
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I'm creating a strategy-based kingdom expansion game, where you start with one city and try to expand as far as possible from there. All the cities fit on a hexagon-grid and are connected by the edges ...
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OpenDota, A community driven platform for DotA 2 matches and players data is the best open-access API in gaming scene. I found no casual tutorial for using its API, So, I decided to make a one. Your ...
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I am making a text turn based RPG fighting game in which you create your own spells. You also share them as JSON files with your friends. Sharing is required to win. The game is designed so that it ...
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Hi^^ i am trying to read data in resource, which i used to do well without any problems. but suddenly it is not working. first i made immutable resource that has data in it, which is ...
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For an RPG I want to generate a world with lots of NPCs, and the NPCs all have relations to eachother. They can be eachothers parents, children, siblings, friends, bosses, lovers, lieges, vassals, etc....
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I am trying to display the first two bytes of a binary file as a test. I have the following code. ...
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I have a voxel game in which you can run on blocks (chunks), jump and set/delete blocks. I want to write an asynchronous TCP server for it and choose boost asio as the network library. I have two ...
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i have a big library on my game. its word library. there is no need of it to be on ram.any moment some part of it can be searched so there is no need to make a list or dictionary for it. is there any ...
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I want to make a game where everything is supposed to be a surprise. Everything from the maps to the enemies, no guides what so ever. For a normal player it may not be a big deal but some people may ...
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I'm making a mobile game and had the idea of using transfer codes for taking one account to another device. Lately, I've seen this function being used in a lot of mobile games, you go to the game ...
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I've been saving data using the playerPrefs option in Unity till now. Is there any better/secure way of saving data for developing mobile games. Somes sites have mentioned encryption of data - how do ...
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Recently I had to transfer my Unity game project to another computer and downloaded the same version of Unity I was using for my 3D project and checked that all the files and folders were in the same ...
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I'm trying to save the player's inventory as a JSON data but I'm having a problem. I have a class Sword which extends an abstract class ...
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I'm building a bowling game in which I am trying to save the number of pins fallen on every turn to a UI text box, taken as an array (public Text[] Count). I'm able ...
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My team is switching to Unity 3D for an upcoming project. I'm tasked with converting our game data system into Unity. Our existing games use spreadsheet documents (Google Docs) for designers to set ...
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I am only just dipping my toe in the water of game development, so forgive my ignorance if you will: Regarding console AAA titles with massive open-world settings: How do all of the art assets and ...
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I'm making a voxel game like Minecraft which was working fine until I added water. Then I realized that whatever the texture was for the first visible block was applied to the rest of the blocks in ...
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I've been looking around and it appears suggestions are only to store data to UserPrefs, or PersistentDataPath. I intend to have map files streamed to the client on demand, and saved for reuse. ...
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I'm writing a game in C++ (with OpenGL) and am getting quite far into development. Currently I'm loading the data directly from different directories. (E.G. I load textures from a /Data/Textures/......
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I'm writing a sandbox-type game and i'm looking for a good way to store game data. I tryed Lua and plain text files, but the have a big minus - player can edit them his self! So how do I protect data ...
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Typically games built with a goal of being easily modded often store data in plain text documents, such as Rimworld. I can't see why an entire database system would be implemented just to read a few ...
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I'm writing a custom engine for a game. I started this game well before I understood why I should use middleware, instead, and it's too far along to rewrite. The vast majority of my data comes from ...
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I am looking at storing player data in Unity from a script that I'm writing in C# and I would like to get an opinion on the best way to store the player's stats/data about the player like hours played,...
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I am working on a match-based (5v5) multiplayer steam game that is similar to TF2, LoL, Dota 2, etc. I am planning a data-driven approach where character/abilities/items/etc are defined in data (JSON)...
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