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i've been thinking, what is the easiest way to make a game...flash(albeit mostly 2d). what platform has the most games... any thing w/ flash suupport. what format has the most devs...flash. look at kongregate, miniclip, armor games, they recieve a new game everyday. there are alot of markets out there...open …

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For my intro to programming class i have to design a game where a ball is shot at an angle and hits squares that are worth points. I have two questions 1.How do you get the ball to move. I was given this code but I don't know if I …

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No doubt, by now you have heard of Microsoft’s latest addition to their Xbox 360, the Kinect controller-less …uhh controller. Instead of a standard handheld controller, the Kinect is a stationary sensor bar that sits in front of your TV. While the Kinect has been compared to the Nintendo Wii’s …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]15945[/ATTACH]Team Ninja, widely known for their Ninja Gaiden titles, are in charge of the latest entry in the Metroid series, known as Metroid: Other M. The series director Yoshio Sakamoto and two Team Ninja cohorts reveal their intentions and aspirations for the revamp of Nintendo fans' favorite space vixen and …

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It only took Sony four years, but they’ve finally created their version of the Wii killer: a glowing magic wand lollipop known to the world as the PlayStation Move. Requiring Sony's PlayStation Eye camera to deliver the experience dubbed by some as the most advanced motion controlled gaming to date …

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The Consumerist is currently running a [URL="http://consumerist.com/5160187/identifying-yourself-as-a-lesbian-gets-you-banned-on-xbox-live"]story[/URL] about how a gamer was first harassed by other players and then booted off Xbox Live by Microsoft. Her crime? Admitting she was a lesbian in her gamer profile. According to the report she was harassed online by other gamers and when she …

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Sales for the latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour titles from Electronic Arts have plummeted 68% from last years edition of the game and people have begun pointing fingers at the entitled golfer's promiscuity. It sure is easy to pass the buck when the accused is steeping in scandal, but that …

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Hi, just recently playing mmos on my pc, namely 'fusionfall', graphically it is a good game but it is very slow. So i was wondering if there are any other browser based mmos you could recommend? i dont want to download anything as my computer is slow enough already! Not …

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Big bucks, no whammies, and STARCRAFT II! At least that’s Activision Blizzard CEO’s Bobby Kotick’s take. According to a recent [I]Wall Street Journal[/I] interview with Kotick, Activision Blizzard has exceeded an already belt-busting budget of $100 million on their soon-to-be industry-leading cash cow. Released in March of 1998, the science …

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At a recent Q&A session in front of investors at E3, Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aime adamantly defended the Wii console’s pace to break the record-setting game sale trends of the Playstation 2, claiming that his console is at the “high watermark” of its existence, with software sales numbers …

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A recent study by Texas A&M International University found that contrary to popular belief, violent video games can actually aid in alleviating stress. The beneficial findings are a sharp contrast to the otherwise bleak shadow cast in recent years by narrow-minded big wigs trying to get ahead in the polls …

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Peter Molyneux, the man behind Lionhead Studios and the fantasy based series, Fable, spoke at a TED Global (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference in Oxford on Tuesday, reintroducing Milo, the “virtual human” software that utilizes Microsoft’s upcoming Kinect controller for the Xbox 360. This is the first time Milo has …

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A new game development company, [URL="http://www.direwolfdigital.com/"]Dire Wolf Digital,[/URL] has officially announced itself to the world today and could be prepared to make a big splash in the gaming world come 2011. [ATTACH=right]15818[/ATTACH]The company shows some strong potential given their current make-up of seasoned veterans in the gaming and business world …

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My name is Melandra and I am probably a bit unusual in that rather than being any kind of a computer technician myself, I work for a company that supplies you technicians with translation of your video game text, software and help files etc. when you want to reach overseas …

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hey guys ...i m making a project of "CHESS GAME"..... in which to identify any pieces of chess board ,i had used described mechanism....(see code of array) ... but it actually not working...it takes garbage value...it is working only for the "Rook"... i can't understand this behavior...so plz help me …

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Back this morning from an excellent evening hosted by Toshiba listening to Bruno Beusch, managing director of [URL="http://www.gamehotel.net"]gamehotel[/URL]. He gave a talk about how games were becoming increasingly pervasive and was quite persuasive; the thing that really caught my attention, however, was the idea that game makers would be able …

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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has just sat down after speaking for an hour to deliver the coalition Government's 'Emergency Budget' to a crowded and noisy House of Commons - and it's not good news for the games industry. Of interest to those in the IT industry in …

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Ok, so I'm trying to make a constructor for a text-based game for a monster. Here is the code for it: [CODE]public class Methods { String name; //characteristics of monsters int bodyPoints, mindPoints, attack, defense; public Monster(String name, int bodyPoints, int mindPoints, int attack, int defense) { this.name=name; this.bodyPoints=bodyPoints; this.mindPoints=mindPoints; …

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I need to code a program for my friend and it has been giving me some difficulties. This needs to have two classes, one called Tester and another called Game. And the data in the Game class needs to be pulled to the tester class after the calculations are finished. …

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I made a Roguelike game with SFML in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and got it to compile fine in both configurations. However, when I run it in Debug mode in either, I get an error message. Debug says: [quote] This Application has failed to start because the Application configuration is …

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I'm looking for a good introductory book for 2D OpenGL Game Programming. The only books on OpenGL I've seen were on 3D. Does anyone know of a good 2D OpenGL Book? Thanks in advance, EpicAsian

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'k so this is my introduction. I'm about to make my verbal exam for "Abitur"/A Level in computer science and want to study either film or 3D Animation/Gamedesign I totally looooove PS2 Games like God of War and NfS and lots of others as well as computer games! And I …

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Hi everyone, I recently bought a Gamers PC and I'm very happy with it, however I'm wondering about the transfer rate of the RAM, and not too sure if it's good enough... I'm running Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, and the specs are as follows : - Radeon HD 5770 …

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I recently downloaded the Retribution Game Engine. However, I cannot find any tutorials for it. Where can I find some? Also, Can I use it commercially?

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Hi All, I'm building a C# game that will handle drag and drop of images and labels in a visual studio form, but when I drag around a component, the form takes big performance hit. For example, I have some images moving around on the form (pictureboxes) and these stop …

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code [code] import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.geom.*; public class QuestionA extends JApplet { public void init() { PanelLukis panel = new PanelLukis(this); getContentPane().add(panel); } } class PanelLukis extends JPanel { private int x_axis, y_axis; private int squareWidth, squareHeight; private int x, y, coordinateX, coordinateY, squareNo; JApplet app; public PanelLukis(JApplet …

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I need to code a program for my friend and it has been giving me some difficulties. This needs to have two classes, one called Tester and another called Game. And the data in the Game class needs to be pulled to the tester class after the calculations are finished. …

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So for this assignment we have to inherit from the base class 'Game' I think I have with my version named 'ChildGame' I would like help with checking the syntax of my function calls from main() [CODE] /*************************************************************************************** Programmer: C.Backlund Program: TicTacToe_1.cpp Purpose: A tic tac toe game Date Created: …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]15121[/ATTACH]Last Friday marked the 30th anniversary of one of the most beloved and recognized video games of all time, [URL="http://pacman.com/en/about"]PAC-MAN[/URL] (released in Japan by Namco). In celebration Google changed it's logo to resemble the board from the game that marked an era. This tribute to PAC-MAN on Google's home page …

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I've created a game and want to record highscores through textboxes. I've thought using an Access database may be one idea but seems quite complicated at my level of programming. I'm looking for some ideas or an alternative to using access. If not then some way i could go about …

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