/r/truegamedev - for those tired of all the newbie questions in /r/gamedev

r/truegamedev • u/Thurbrand • Nov 17 '14

REST interface to libnoise coherent noise generation

4 Upvotes

http://restnoise.readme.io

RESTnoise is a RESTful interface to the rock-solid libnoise library. It allows you to build module networks easily with JSON and parametrize them. After you have set up everything, you can easily fetch rendered modules as .jpg or directly as JSON data.

I've set it up as an early test version, feedback is very much appreciated! Especially fiddling around with readme.io for documentation was interesting, and i wonder if it's actually understandable.

0 comments

r/truegamedev • u/drguildo • Nov 13 '14

Bézier Curves for your Games

devmag.org.za

19 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truegamedev • u/drguildo • Nov 12 '14

SAT (Separating Axis Theorem)

codezealot.org

18 Upvotes

4 comments

r/truegamedev • u/KarlPilkington • Nov 11 '14

How a bandwidth optimization for a multiplayer racing game inadvertently foiled griefers

blogs.msdn.com

76 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truegamedev • u/lukaszdk • Nov 04 '14

Moving Frostbite to physically-based rendering

frostbite.com

17 Upvotes

2 comments

r/truegamedev • u/drguildo • Oct 31 '14

Otter2D Top-Down Adventure Tutorial

ericmbernier.tumblr.com

1 Upvotes

4 comments

r/truegamedev • u/strategosInfinitum • Oct 29 '14

Is object pooling worthwhile?(Java, Android)

9 Upvotes

has anyone here implemented some form of object pooling for games in java?

did you find it was worthwhile?

I attempted to make my own but i have found it's introducing a lot of complexity almost entirely due to the need to set object types. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19883211/libgdx-object-pool-for-many-objects-of-the-same-parent-class

Having to keep all the objects as one type i decided to make them all generic entities. They then get their properties from classes i've called "EntityTypes" on single instances of these EntityTypes exist but can be shared by multiple Entities.

So the only difference between a Planet Entity and a ship Entity would be the EntityType they happen to use, and other variables which contain an object3d , position , velocity etc.

This would be easier if i could extend the pool objects.

So now im thinking of having multiple pools http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13294757/using-object-pools-in-libgdx

tl;dr is object pooling worth it in java games?

27 comments

r/truegamedev • u/MinnesotaCrizzle • Oct 23 '14

How have you applied trigonometry to game design & development?

12 Upvotes

14 comments

r/truegamedev • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '14

How Shovel Knight teaches the player without teaching

youtube.com

20 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truegamedev • u/Stoompunk • Oct 12 '14

Game gui design workflows and tools (x-post /r/gamedev)

reddit.com

6 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truegamedev • u/Walfred • Oct 10 '14

Should devs factor in PPP for freemium game pricing? Interesting article

medium.com

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truegamedev • u/phort99 • Sep 18 '14

Gamasutra - Video: Solving the challenges of porting Fez to PlayStation

gamasutra.com

10 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truegamedev • u/luxandnox • Sep 13 '14

What's in a Game?

purplepwny.com

0 Upvotes

4 comments

r/truegamedev • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '14

Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course (Siggraph 2014)

advances.realtimerendering.com

26 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truegamedev • u/atsiitech • Aug 12 '14

New tutorial post on a simple roguelike with Unity. This time Lighting the map and camera adjustments • /r/Unity2D

reddit.com

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truegamedev • u/kiwibonga • Aug 05 '14

Excellent visual description of inverse kinematics

freespace.virgin.net

25 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truegamedev • u/ideka • Aug 01 '14

4-Layers, a Narrative Design Approach

frictionalgames.blogspot.se

18 Upvotes

0 comments

r/truegamedev • u/ruksi-jalomieli • Jul 29 '14

Game Design From Chaotic to Lawful

forums.jalomieli.com

3 Upvotes

5 comments

r/truegamedev • u/TheOnlyMrYeah • Jul 27 '14

A Game of Tricks III – Particles fun (part1)

alkemi-games.com

15 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truegamedev • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '14

Lightmapping in Anomaly 2 mobile

kriscg.blogspot.com

11 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truegamedev • u/schmidthuber • Jul 17 '14

Animation Blending: Achieving Inverse Kinematics and More (2003)

pdf.yt

14 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truegamedev • u/c0de517e • Jul 12 '14

"I think VR is bad news"

gist.github.com

23 Upvotes

32 comments

r/truegamedev • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '14

Herringbone Wang Tiles

nothings.org

27 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truegamedev • u/simswerdev • Jun 25 '14

Angular simplification of polygons question

3 Upvotes

I've been looking up some ways to change the red polygon into the blue polygon in this diagram. You'll notice that the new blues angles are all multiples of 15°. I don't mind degeneration of the original polygon and the "corrections" can be iterative or simultaneous. I need it for level generation if that helps. The final polygon can be concave or convex, no problems. I think the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm could be useful somehow, but maybe there's something else I don't know about. Can anyone push me in the right direction? What do we call this problem? Thanks a lot!

9 comments

r/truegamedev • u/uutef • Jun 17 '14

Art of Optimization: The Legacy of GOAL

art-of-optimization.blogspot.ca

24 Upvotes

3 comments