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Refers to a method of interacting with the game. This can be: mouse, keyboard, voice, motion.

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I built my entire game in Unity based on my Android phone resolution, both for UI and object sizes. Now, everything looks good for a 1080 x 2400 resolution, but I know that's not the aspect ratio of ...
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I'm trying to create an event system that can be used for all types of events that happen in my game but I'm running into this following problem. My player HUD needs to be updated whenever an enemy ...
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When i added in a optionbutton for my hud i couldnt find a way to add items manually,this was weird as when i looked for a way,a button on top of the editor should appear but its not there? I dont ...
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Can I activate the OnDrag and OnEndDrag trough the OnPointerClick handler to start dragging ...
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I have a data structure that represents a simple terrain system and a number of filter algorithms that can be run on it. I want to be able to apply them in in any arbitrary order and have multiple ...
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In Steve Swink's book "Game Feel", he talks about 3 thresholds the computer must meet in order to maintain the illusion of real-time control. The impression of motion (display above 10 ...
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I'm making a Mindustry-type prototype. Some block (such as miners) can output resource (with the IOutput interface), some block (such as containers) can input those ...
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I have two classes. Both of them are placed in the editor/interface_field folder. ...
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This might sound strange, but let me explain. Say I want to write a safari program. In this safari there is an object pool of 10 animals (Animal*): 2 ostrich, 5 ...
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How do I zoom in using this program in Windows 10?
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I'm editing the 2D colliders on some objects of my game, and I need them to be very accurate, so I'm zooming in a lot. Problem is, since my objects are 3D graphically, when I zoom in a lot they ...
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I want to implement a damage system that works across both living items (Entity) and environment items (Environment). The key ...
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I have a collection of different enemies that I save as Prefabs with default AI settings. I drag them into the game world and apply changes to the AI as necessary. Every now and then for some reason I ...
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How do you unselect a game Object in the 3d view using your keyboard?
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Lets say I want a game to be able to run with SDL, Allegro, on Game parks or Tiny Arcade and I don't want to recode everything everytime I port my game. The C and C++ language separate definition in ....
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There is a type of multi-scale world browsing that has appeared in games in the last few years and I would be interested to know if there is a specific term that this browsing is known as and more ...
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I'm creating a platform system using a raycast controller that uses an interface to perform different tasks based on the type of platform with which my player is currently colliding. Some of the ...
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I have C++ function (which runs some physical simulation inside my game engine) which looks like this: ...
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I've created a basic 3d character (humanoid) in Blender with animations etc. I've imported it into Unity and it works fine. However, I have written my own code to handle the CrossPlatformInput script ...
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Other contexts in which this was done I'm sure have been answered for this kind of problem before. But this has thus far been a 2 week long impasse of wittling down all the other suggestions I've seen ...
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Please be aware that this was initially a question about how to get the input to work. A comment pointed me in the direction of a fix, but only left me with more questions in regards to understanding ...
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I was wandering how easy is to interface existing Java programs/GUIs inside a game loop. Sorry if my question is a bit vague. I'll try to explain. I am currently designing a simulation environment ...
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Are there any researches concerning FPS game interfaces? I'm interested in analyses of designing & positioning UI-elements. The only thing I can find are blogs and articles about immersion in ...
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I made an (ios) arcade game that is rather unconventional, and as a result many people wont exactly know what to do or what the controls are when they first open it. As a results I have had to add a ...
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I come from Unreal, still using it. There, how it works is like this: Let's say you as a player have a laser gun or something, and when shooting, you use raycast to see if you've shot anything, and ...
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I need to create menu items on top of my DX11 windowed app - similar to most windowed applications (File, Edit, etc...). How can I achieve this ? There is a hMenu ...
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In first-person voxel games (like Minecraft, shown below) you can select voxels by going over them. What kind of algorithm is used to select a voxel? I haven't implemented it in my voxel application ...
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I'm implementing a GUI system to look around a 2D tile-based world. At the moment, I'm updating it every time the mouse moves (which happens to be per frame, since that's when it polls for events). ...
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Could anyone please explain to me the differences between "diegetic," "non-diegetic," "spatial," and "meta" user interfaces in terms of how they are represented in games and game development?
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This is my first time using interfaces so I imagine I'm doing something dumb. I have an interface called ILoadable inside ILoadable.cs; ...
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In our project we used to have a PlayerObject class and then Unit and Building derived from that class. We recently started taking a look at Bolt, which requires classes that define objects that may ...
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I want to render some text using a gradient instead of a solid color, but I can't figure out how to. I first load a gradient like this: ...
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I want to create a button for a game's UI. The background uses a gradient and then I blit a surface on top of the gradient and use SDL_SetColorKey to delete the unwanted pixels. The surfaces are not ...
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Im making a user interface using libgdx I created a Window class & a Textfield class, that both use clipping. I use the ScissorStack class of libgdx for clipping. The Textfield is drawn inside ...
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It seems to me that it would be more logical, reusable and user-friendly to implement flexible, responsive UI layout over a 3d or 2d screen, which can then be run on any screen resolution. Some ...
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I want to create a menu for an SDL game, so I load an Image to an SDL_Window as the background, then I try to load the next image which will be a button but it doesn't display the button to the window,...
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I want to create a menu for a game using a color gradient as the background. Is there a way to create a gradient background instead of using an image for it (since I don't know what size the window ...
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I'm about to start programmin an inventory, harvest and loot system. I will need enemies that drop items, harvestable environmentals that yield resources and an inventory system that takes items and ...
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I just solved my issue in my object (on the stage) I forgot to name the element I'm trying to make workin a custom mouse cursor on my Scaleform menu. I have follow some tutorials but nothing good... ...
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I am working on a 2D engine in Xna and am running in a bit of trouble with Collision implementation. What I want to do is have an interface ICollidable that I can add to GameObjects that are ...
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All I've have an interface that allows me to switch between different scenes in my Android game. When the home key is pressed, I am saving all of my states (score, sprite positions etc) into a Bundle....
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there is a text box on GUI in my application created using Unity3D. in the textbox user can input only the keys of "A-Z", "0-9" , "enter key" , "." and "," other key press should be ignored (not ...
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So I'm trying to test an ImageButton on an Android device. I can get the button to appear on the screen, but when I press it nothing happens or appears on the log. Here is what I have in the Show() ...
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I recently started using slick2D in my gaming programs and a problem I have is not having the ability to remove the border/titlebar. I usually do this to create my own cutom look/ interface but if I ...
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I have been stuck in the design phase on my new game for a few weeks now because I keep finding new parts of the game engine that I could make more modular and neat. I did, however, run into a ...
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I would like to add a GUI in my basic XNA games. Before starting work on "Photoshop" or "Illustrator". I wanted to ask you the following question: Do you know of a website or other resource program ...
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Today I implemented the interfaces for libRocket in my engine using OpenGL 3.3. I got a standard RML file and some fonts and images which where needed in this RML file. It seems that the page/RML I'm ...
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I have a map of adjacent irregularly-shaped territories. It happens to be a county map, but that's not important. In the game, the player only sees a few to start, and as he progresses to new ...
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I'm currently coding a heavily text-based RPG game which requires you to do deals with characters or suppliers in the game, sometimes the deals are good/bad. Currently the way I'm doing it is that, ...
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I am currently programming a very simple 2d game in C# with XNA. I was wondering how to implement a console-type interface in a game or graphical software like there is in Skyrim or Counter-strike or ...
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