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What are atan and atan2 used for in games?
Awarded Dec 17, 2024 at 5:26
How do you generate tileable Perlin noise?
Awarded Apr 3, 2024 at 3:17
How do you generate tileable Perlin noise?
Awarded Dec 29, 2023 at 19:41
How do I get a job in the games industry as "the one with the ideas"?
Awarded Oct 13, 2022 at 5:56
What is the proper way to handle data between scenes?
Awarded Mar 9, 2022 at 9:16
Why do games have hats?
Awarded May 17, 2021 at 18:45
Moving ships between two planets along a bezier, missing some equations for acceleration
Awarded Oct 31, 2020 at 19:47
How are imaginary numbers useful in video game creation?
Awarded Feb 3, 2020 at 9:10
Why do RPGs let you know how much XP you need to level up?
Awarded Jan 30, 2019 at 12:35
What things should an indie game developer never do?
Awarded Dec 28, 2018 at 14:40
Why are people developing and publishing games online without charging money?
Awarded Dec 20, 2018 at 11:30
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Awarded Aug 25, 2018 at 21:20
How to deal with "Scrooge McDucks" in my fixed-currency-amount game?
Awarded Aug 7, 2018 at 16:25
How can I replicate Quantum Break's distortion particle effect?
Awarded Jul 2, 2018 at 7:43
How can I optimise a Minecraft-esque voxel world?
Awarded Mar 10, 2018 at 16:09
How can I know if my puzzle game is always possible?
Awarded Feb 9, 2018 at 22:36
How can I make a "wet surface"/"shallow puddle" shader in Unity?
Awarded Jan 29, 2018 at 16:41
How can I create a "see behind walls" effect?
Awarded Jan 7, 2018 at 19:59
Dungeons in a 3d space game
Awarded Dec 23, 2017 at 22:12
You've killed the enemy you needed to get across. Now you have to die and retry?
Awarded Dec 13, 2017 at 1:54
What is actually moving in an endless runner?
Awarded Dec 7, 2017 at 8:26
How can I completely hide and protect strings from the player in Unity?
Awarded Nov 30, 2017 at 2:04
How can I completely hide and protect strings from the player in Unity?
Awarded Nov 27, 2017 at 19:54
Should I worry about Youtube Let's Plays when I'm creating a story-heavy game?
Awarded Nov 22, 2017 at 20:04
How does Dwarf Fortress keep track of so many entities without losing performance?
Awarded Nov 21, 2017 at 21:11
What are the advantages of putting cheat codes into a game?
Awarded Nov 9, 2017 at 20:23
Has piracy ever resulted in a developer getting shut down?
Awarded Nov 3, 2017 at 9:38
How can I create a 'flaming' effect like in Ocarina of Time's title screen?
Awarded Oct 26, 2017 at 18:15
Is it unethical to make a game AI that is secretly non-competitive?
Awarded Oct 20, 2017 at 16:48
How do I get players to say "no" when they are afraid of missing out on sidequests or XP?
Awarded Oct 9, 2017 at 15:36
How do I get players to say "no" when they are afraid of missing out on sidequests or XP?
Awarded Oct 3, 2017 at 15:22
Will the inclusion of LGBT characters in my game detract from possible sales?
Awarded Sep 22, 2017 at 19:17
Why are games built on cross-platform engines sometimes exclusive to Windows?
Awarded Jul 11, 2017 at 18:27
How can I clean up excessive player-created rubble?
Awarded Jun 28, 2017 at 0:02
What is unit slotting?
Awarded May 30, 2017 at 13:09
Why is it so bad to optimize too early?
Awarded May 23, 2017 at 15:59
What is the point of update independent rendering in a game loop?
Awarded Apr 16, 2017 at 21:43
What things should an indie game developer never do?
Awarded Apr 6, 2017 at 22:01
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Awarded Mar 22, 2017 at 20:51
How do modern game engines achieve real-time rendering vs Blender's "slow" rendering?
Awarded Feb 8, 2017 at 14:30
How do modern game engines achieve real-time rendering vs Blender's "slow" rendering?
Awarded Feb 7, 2017 at 14:38
What is the point of a borderless fullscreen window?
Awarded Feb 1, 2017 at 5:07
What should a main game loop do?
Awarded Nov 10, 2016 at 18:58
What is "game logic code?"
Awarded Sep 18, 2016 at 0:15
How to avoid players getting lost in and/or bored by the meta game?
Awarded Aug 27, 2016 at 5:41
How closely can a game legally resemble another?
Awarded Aug 25, 2016 at 18:10
What are "affordances" in game design?
Awarded Aug 20, 2016 at 4:41
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Awarded Jul 5, 2016 at 9:42
Is UDP still better than TCP for data-heavy realtime games?
Awarded Apr 22, 2016 at 22:40
How to develop RPG Damage Formulas?
Awarded Jan 16, 2016 at 12:12
How do I make educational games engaging not boring?
Awarded Jan 12, 2016 at 22:23
Why do loot drops contain (mostly) useless items?
Awarded Dec 23, 2015 at 7:39
How can I create borders in an open-world game that don't feel artificial?
Awarded Dec 7, 2015 at 12:35
Why are gaming graphics not as beautiful as animated movies?
Awarded Oct 26, 2015 at 18:31
What makes a computer opponent feel alive?
Awarded Sep 5, 2015 at 7:14
What causes aliasing?
Awarded Aug 25, 2015 at 1:22
When should I use a fixed or variable time step?
Awarded Mar 10, 2015 at 0:57
Why do we use the Pythagorean theorem in game physics?
Awarded Feb 11, 2015 at 0:00
How do I create 2D water with dynamic waves?
Awarded Jan 14, 2015 at 7:36
What math should all game programmers know?
Awarded Dec 5, 2014 at 12:39
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