Game Development Forum

Hey! I've been looking into game development recently and decided to start learning, I have good base on C++ so language isn't problem. I came across these 2 libraries, SFML and SDL, they break opinions so I would like to hear which you guys suggest! Thanks

Hello there, i'm a new to this forum and i was always curious about game developing so here are some questions about game developing: - Is it a good job? - What qualities are required to develop a game? - How much time does it take to develop a game? …

Hi. I have for a while wanted to know how to make games. Please could someone say what is a good [B]free[/B] programming language/software to use. i am not a begginer as i know quite a bit of vb.net, HTML, css and a small amount of other laguages like python, …

My below code will compile and create a form with blue inside. I'm currently trying to draw a triangle to the screen but when I call "device.DrawPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 1);" inside of my render function the program fails. Let me know if I'm doing anything wrong, I'm still in the process …

Hello Just one question- is it possible, to solve 15 game if grid is not square? I have written this game for 6x5 grid, however I've tried about 20 times I always fail to solve last row. So I started to think the solvability may depend on width/height ratio or …

Hi Can anyone help me please What is the Best Games Developer software. Thanks.

I'll explain what I'm doing before I get to the exact problem. I've been making a 2D game in python. Originally I was making it in pygame but I faced a problem. To prevent a very low frame rate I either had to reduce the screen dimensions and remove features …

Hi and I have tried some UV mapping in blender and although it can be handy in some situations I have found it to not do the job for my situation. Basically all I want to do is for a texture to pattern around every face of the object without …

I'm working on a project using Lindenmayer systems([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system[/url]) to simulate the animation of a tree growing. It uses recursion to determine how the branches and leaves of the tree appear. The program uses OpenGL and my programming language is C++. Here's what I've defined my L-System with: derivative length: 10 …

I've been trying to code a catch me game (for anyone who doesn't know: a game with a ball that randomly jumps around the screen - the goal is to click the ball before it moves, and not to miss it). I've got the clicks part down. You can click …

HI everyone! I'm Darkwing. Me and a crew of ppl, mostly teens :D, are willing to create an RPG named "Phoenix Dream". The thing is, i'm still learning, really, just starting to learn to program, so i'd need help from someone experienced enough to deal with 3D rendering and creation …

Hello! I'm a management major doing some research on educational video games: Just wanted to ask if you have any good sources/references/insights/anything interesting about video games being used in education? especially in the collegiate level. Things I want to find out are: >The usual target segment for these games have …

Hi all, We have a project about robotics, robotic arm. The robotic arm will be controlled by computer, and will send information at which position it is instantenously. According to the data that is sent from the robotic arm the simulation will happen. And I am responsible for computer part, …

can you help me in making a 8 puzzle solver in c

I mean we create our own game engine which works well with vectors and can mainpulate the 3d card and sound cards.And works with USB control pads

Can I install hardcore computer games on a flash drive without installing on my computer? So can I install hardcore computer games on a flash drive without installing the games on my computer? I would like to play games such as Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 The …

please help me to get the code of this output: 1 2 3 2 3 4 5 4 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 7 6 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 0 9 8 7 6 7 8 9 0 …

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELLO FRIENDS... I M MAKING A GAME WHICH IS CALLED "RAMP GAME". THIS GAME CONSIST OF 1) A BALL, 2) A BASKET, 3) SOME LINES ( which can be place anywhere by the user with in the boundary walls). HERE IS TEH LINK.... SNIP u can see what it …

How can I draw text in a glut window with the keyboard; I have tried doing cin with [CODE] void TextBox::Keys(unsigned char key,int x,int y){ switch(key){ case 13://enter key cin >> String; DrawString = true; break; case 27: exit(0); break; } [/CODE] and then in the draw function [CODE] fontx …

So i have to do a school project for next year and i was thinking about doing something like a Pokemon game. i don't know were to start, what software should i use and if you can give me any tips that would be great.

Hello, I am currently doing a research at my university about the ways in which we can use multicore CPU to enhance graphics performance instead of putting all the load on the GPU, I am trying to work with both OpenGL and OpenMP and I am planning on using gDebugger …

It would seem that there is something of an ongoing battle in the world of online Chinese gaming, and World of Warcraft is right in the midst of it. As I [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220683.html"]reported[/URL] back in July, the company behind World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment) was having problems in getting The Burning …

hi each time i try to play a game my computer shut down why is that happening

I have never made a game before, but have been interested for a while, but i have no idea where to start. could someone recommend some software on where to start, and how to actually program a game. Thanks ~Matt

Hey there everyone, i am wanting to do some college and do game design and programming. What languages should i learn, which ones would be the best? what is the main used language used for game programming now days?

I am making a rubix cube game in OpenGL and I have run into a problem with rotations. When doing multiple rotations (x, y, z) the axis gets rotated as well (ie when doing an x-axis rotation of 90 or 270 deg the y-axis becomes the z-axis and z-axis becomes …

hey guys i have a problem with a game of mine...farcry....the problem is that whenever i play the game the graphics gets messed up and the screen goes white though im still playing the game....ie, the game doesnt hang at all. i am currently using a dell computer: intel core2 …

I know a little DirectX 9(I can draw a little, etc.), but i want to learn DirectX 10. I decided to take the tutorial that is provided in the DirectX SDK, so i did. Almost immediately i noticed that it was heavy. My CPU usage shot up and it took …

I have just gotten a grasp of how it works.. I think. I'll just show Where I'm at right now. [CODE=vb] Public Class Face 'global variables Dim x, y As Integer Dim map(x, y) As Integer 'Not sure if this should be a Integer but if I run into errors …

So. I've decided to make a browser based MMORPG. But I need some advice on where I should start with the whole thing... I've got ideas, and knowledge on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. From what I've found PHP and MySQL is needed also, and I know very little on them, …

Hi. I initially started up a thread at the Game Dev. section of the forums but it seems rather dead so I thought I'd try my luck here. I am making a top-down 2D shooter in D3D. So what I want to do is have my character rotate towards my …

If possible could you please take a look at this image/tileset and see if its possible to draw a 2x2 tile map with each of the frames in that image correctly mapped onto the quads in the tile map. The idea is to go on and use this as a …

I'm having trouble understanding coordinate space using perspective in OpenGL. Basically I can't figure out how many units will represent the entire screen given a specific z-value or how spacing should be done, etc. In all the tutorials I've seen they plot these nice shapes placed evenly apart in different …

I have a few nice ideas for a game that i would like to make, involving some, what i see as, pretty advanced coding requirements. all i would like is a site with some nice begginer tutorials, i think i can take it from there, also your favorite program or …

I have recently learnt the basics of c++ but I want to advance to making proper GUI's (and games) but I don't know what to use. I think the two most popular libraries are OpenGL and Direct3d but I'm not sure which one to use. could you guide me in …

Hi, Im very curious how to compute exact probablility of a certain slot machine games? Even samples will do. Thanks...

Hello everyone. I am new here and would like to know what would be the best way to go about setting up a website account creation system that will also store there account into a mysql database but also add it to a game database witch is sql. Thanks

Moazzam Begg, former [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2863.html"]Guantanamo Bay[/URL] detainee, is set to go back to the now closed suspected terrorist prison camp. But this time his stay will be purely virtual, on the Xbox 360. As strange as it might sound, a new computer game is being developed based upon life in Guantanamo …

When it was reported this week that [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20747/1066/"]Professor Stephen Hawking[/URL] had been taken into hospital and was "very ill" the overall mood of the media seemed to be that the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University and author of the best selling 'A Brief History of Time' book was …

Apparently it would appear that the Tomb raider franchise is not as healthy as it used to be. The days of movie spin-offs with Angelina Jolie would look like being long gone (was it really 2001 that the movie came out?) Indeed, publisher Eidos even had to renegotiate debt covenants …

A typically eloquent contribution from my colleague Happygeek tells us a great deal about the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3522.html"]games console wars[/URL]. Xbox is outselling the PS3 but they're both being trounced by the Wii. So far so good, but my guess is that the Xbox will still be the long-term loser. And I'll …

Six weeks ago I wrote that video game stocks were going to be a good play for the duration of 2007 - - and probably well into 2008. As I said at the time, anyone with a 12-year-old boy in the house recognizes the familiar hoots and hollers from the …

I have to admit, on my perch here overlooking Wall Street, of the industries traders typcially jawbone about, video games arean't at the top of the list. Exhibit "A". At a dinner Wednesday night with three options traders over some Kobi steaks and some good wine, all the talk was …

Microsoft has just announced the release of a Windows Live instant messaging client for its Xbox 360 game console, giving gamers the capability of chatting to their PC friends. There was already a video and voice chat feature via Xbox Live, but this feature enables players to connect with up …

Everyone is up-in-the-arms about Nintendo's new console beating Sony's. The sales of the Wii in November (roughly 467,000) are more than double the PS3 sales (147,000), according to NPD. But what most articles about this don't talk about: the PS2 is still winning, and easily. It managed to sell 664,000 …

It seems like users are doing exactly what Nintendo intended when they created the fancy Wii controller. Users are having so much fun, they're getting carried away when playing their video games, and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdihGX7iWM&eurl="]literally throwing it around[/URL]. The Wii-mote, a uniquely designed game controller for Nintendo's Wii game console, works …

Can anybody guide me to implement mouse based zoom in, zoom out, and then scroll up,down,left,right (like in adobe reader while viewing pdf file). I m using openGL.

Greetings, It has been a while since I have posted and as usual new things yield new questions from me. I am ever at the mercy of the forum gurus. Anywho, I'm making a 3d solar system. One thing that I want to make possible is to turn on and …

I've gone a little further with my code since the last time I posted here. Everything worked fine till the moment I started drawing in an actual 3rd dimension - the results are visible at least, but they're far from what they should look like. Instead of a pyramid and …

Hie all I am trying to make my game playabel over a network, Client/Server. I have managed to design the game, i have also managed to create a chat program whereby all clients connect to the server and messeges sent are all received and updated by the server to all …