Questions tagged [software-engineering]
Software engineering is the design and development of software as it applies to the game development field. Questions using this tag should be about theoretical concepts and practices as relates to the task of creating or designing software. This tag should not be used simply because a question involves programming or contains code.
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Destroying the parent when all children are destroyed
I have a spell system where a the spell is a self-contained game object handling all the logic. When done, it destroys itself. This works great
Then I added a second game object handling animation, ...
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How to implement something like Noita's spell system?
Does anyone have any insight or at least a guess as to how the spell system works in Noita?
The game is done in C++, and it has spells that can be modified with other spells and spell modifiers that ...
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Creating composite transformation matrix to apply in vertex shader
What I'm puzzled about, is why most tutorials on graphics programming speak of creating a composition of transformation matrices - which are then applied in a single loop (to each vertex).
I did the ...
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How to separate game engine from the game?
I've been doing some reading and watching videos about game engine architecture, and it seems that a key component of making a game engine is to have it seperate from the actual game. The Cherno ...
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Common Methods to Restrict User Movement and Prevent Other Objects from Acting in Games
I am a web and mobile app programmer. Compared to web and mobile app source code, I haven't seen much game programming source code.
In web applications, all elements are essentially static (?), and ...
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How to prioritize and display correct UI for multiple actions triggered by the same input?
In my Unity game, the "Interact" action is used for multiple tasks like opening doors and grabbing/dropping objects. However, there are scenarios where the player has an object in their ...
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How do you determine what order to process chained events/interactions?
I'm trying to write a top-down tactics RPG game in python, and run into the first major decision I can't make with my limited knowledge of RPG fundamentals.
In our game you create a team of characters ...
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How to structure a complex inventory system in Unity?
My inventory needs to deal with different Item types. Item is my base class, which is extended by Armor, Weapon, Spell, Scroll and I might add more in the future.
All items have an interaction on ...
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Correct way to manage managers and controllers in Unity
I am having a bit of a headache right now about my controllers:
Ive got a bunch of managers in my game, for example
A MasterController to manage most serious stuff like pausing or turning off input
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What is the simplest way to enforce/remind people to set a variable in a subclass when the code is dynamic?
I have a base class for Abilities. This is a point and click game, therefore I have Click, Hold and Drag subclasses.
What I need to do is remind myself to set the player's AI state to Ability when it ...
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Decouple game entity from its owner when logic depends on it
In my real-time multiplayer game, there are multiple entities that are very interrelated and whose logic is very related to the player who owns them. I don't think I can decouple the classes from each ...
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Command Pattern or/and Event Handling porgramming paradigm?
I have created a dynamic library that contains all the tools I want my game executable to have. Additionally, I want to create a world editor/tools for my engine to be more user-friendly.
I'm ...
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How to implement graphics API functions like setUniform on a cross-platform shader in VLang?
I've been working on a C++ game engine for a while, but I decided to scrap the project because doing it in C++, despite my best efforts, I could feel the technical dept building. As such, I switched ...
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Singletons as presented in Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory
I am reading the amazing Game Engine Architecture 3rd edition by Jason Gregory, but I have trouble understanding the singleton part, more particularly the part dealing with subsystem start/shutdown...
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How do programmers distribute their games from custom game engines?
I am currently reading tons of books about game engine, real time rendering, animation, physics... but I could not find any description of how game developers who built their game with their own game ...