Island Survival Game
I still need a name for this game but I currently refer to it as Island Survival Game. But I'm very excited to share the project that I've been working on with you guys. the game I've been working on...
View ArticleOffsetting DrawIndexedInstanced() using StartIndexLocation,...
Hi, I use the following layout within my code and use DrawIndexedInstanced() to render multiple objects. Everything works fine !CONST D3D11_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC vertexLayoutDesc[] = { // Vertex buffer...
View ArticleHow should I build my ground in Unreal Engine 4?
I'm making a small map for me to make a scene for me to mess around with and learn the basics of Unreal Engine 4. I know how to make models and how to texture them, import them, export them etc, but I...
View ArticleDirectXMath cached memory?
The documentation for the DirectXMath function XMLoadFloat says the parameter must reside in cached memory. What is cached memory and how do I get it?
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I`m a DirectX developer, I`m not a Linux die hard fan. But for learning purposes I`m considering Linux. Before I move on with my DirectX development. I know linux and games don`t mix but I`m a...
View ArticleHexagon game, holes in a region
I'm making a game on a hexagon grid.A ‘region’ is a list of all the tiles of a certain colour that are connected.I'm trying to devise a function that will return the ‘holes’ in a region.The function...
View ArticleNew Logo
This weekend I decided to come up with a new actually proper logo for Gilded Octopus Studios. I have some super cool upcoming business opportunities, deals, and expansions in store so I needed a better...
View Articleweird shadow artifact Directx 11 shadow mapping
currently i am trying to do shadow mapping. i am rendering to a texture the depth data of the scene and then in shadow shader i am using it but as you can see the image i am not getting currect shadows...
View ArticleNatural Balance: Chronicles
GAME DESCRIPTION: A single player ARPG where the activities of every player in the game world affects the global energy balance of an entire server region. Complete a quest, pray at a shrine, kill...
View ArticleOlaf the Boozer
Did you have such a thing that you wake up after booze and can’t remember what happened last night? I didn’t, but our hero Olaf ... With unenviable regularity, he wakes up in a dilapidated house and...
View ArticleNightfall
Nightfall is a block/voxel type game being developed by Venatus. It is an open world sandbox game that pits you against dynamic and dangerous enemies along with other players. You can work together or...
View Articlex64 calling convention doesn't make room for return value in rcx
I have a function which works correctly with asCALL_CDECL_OBJFIRST. self is the correct pointer, and passed via rcx as specified in the x64 calling convention:staticvoid...
View ArticleBattletech Developer Journal - Living the Dream
I played my first game of table-top BattleTech in 1989 and absolutely fell in love with the game. Mechwarriors piloting huge stompy robots shooting the crap out of each other with lasers, missiles,...
View ArticleEcks Type
This is my entry for the Non-shooter side scrolling shooter GameDev Challenge I started way late so it's a relatively simple game that meets all the minimum requirements detailed here:...
View ArticleJava - error: cannot find symbol
I newly started programming java and am currently trying to figure out how to draw images. I get an error that tells me I am doing something wrong even though I am only doing what I learned on the...
View ArticleBudgeting of game music production survey.
Hello there game developers. I’ve recently discovered there is not much data about common planning and budgeting approaches, when it comes to game music production. We very often struggle to estimate...
View ArticleLooking for a team to work on my innovative ARPG
Hello everyone, I am in early development of an ARPG that is designed from the ground up to address some of the issues with existing ARPGs and provide some new features on top of that. You can read...
View Articlesdl on ubuntu
Hey I am a complete noob to linux. And I wanted to give it a try so I whent and installed ubuntu. Worked like a charm. Now I have gcc gotten up and running and I am able to compile projects with...
View ArticleSDL installation, Ubuntu?
I'm a beginner at Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as well, Here's my problem: 1. SDL was not default installed, so I had to install it in order to build SDL apps. When I install it, I can build...
View ArticleWhen games become a serious thing...
Same tools, same professionals, some of them create Avengers with the goal of making people lose 2 hours of their life. Others create The Trump Show to give people food of thoughts.Same tools, same...
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