Questions tagged [state]
Generally used in correlation with a state machine.
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Handling status/effects on a turn based RPG game
I have managed to create a state machine for my game core, like on turn start, on turn end, and another one. Now lets talk about effect/status.
For generic effects such boosting stats for certain ...
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What's wrong with this ground check in my HSM?
I'm working on a third person platformer. The player controller uses a hierarchical state machine taken from this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtUKsjPWzO8
Using Unity 6.0.
Currently, it's ...
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Jump state in AnimGraph is not entered when character jumps
I finished following the "setting up character movement" gameplay tutorial and everything works, except for the jump animation, which does not play when jumping. I determined that the issue ...
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How to Prevent Subsystems from Responding to Events from Other Game States
I'm writing a game from scratch in C++, using the book Game Coding Complete as a guide. The engine in the book has an event manager which is used to communicate between the game's systems, such as ...
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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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Switching states within conditional statements in C#
In the usual Update() of a state (let's call it Attack for simplicity) of an object state manager ...
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Unity Save System - is there a better way?
I've been trying to understand how best to approach carrying state over between scenes, and how to save/load game state. I've built an isolated project to focus on building out this approach.
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Assistance with State Machine Event subscription error? [closed]
My aim is to create events within my various states that will broadcast to other GameObjects when to take certain actions and to send certain data without needing to reference each GameObject.
I have ...
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Is writing an if statement for every element in an array the most efficient way to do so?
I have a few string arrays for which I can cycle what the current active element is (of which there can only be one at a time) using the number keys. Something like the item inventory in Half-Life. I ...
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Manage game states of a card game with MVC
I am creating a Yugioh java game with MVC. I was wondering wich is the better way to manage game states with MVC? I tought maybe I can use State Pattern in Model section with DrawPhase, ...
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How to separate player state on shared object?
I'm new to game dev and I'm learning about quadtrees for planet rendering. I'm curious on how do I separate player state with quadtrees. For example I have a ship A that's getting close to a planet, ...
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(FSM) Detect a change on a variable on Update, and trigger certain State
So, I'm working on a FSM that ticks on every frame. The inner workings can be simplified to this:
The user (me) creates the States:
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Is there a way to globally/uniquely reference a node in another scene?
I'd like events/actions (e.g. pressing a button, defeating a mini-boss, etc.) in one area of the game to affect things (e.g. unlock/open door, enable boss spawn) in other areas that are distinct/...
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How can I efficiently and safely represent and query game state in the logic programming paradigm?
After learning Dialog, I've discovered representing game logic using the logic programming paradigm is a lot of fun; the composability and non-locality makes it feel like some kind of superior ECS. ...
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Networked game with physics and client side prediction and server reconsiliation causes lag
I'm trying to make a multiplayer platformer game. I can almost get client side prediction and server reconsiliation to work, but there is one issue that I just can't wrap my head around.
Lets say that ...
