Questions tagged [xna]
XNA is a free set of game development tools from Microsoft that facilitate game development for Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Zune and Windows platforms.
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Camera Movement in a World Map
using XNA and C# I built a game as a tutorial, but I have since added functionality to allow the player to move around on a world map which requires the camera to "move" but I no longer like the look ...
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Optimizing an A* algorithm
I am currently using an implementation of the A* algorithm described here.
Currently, when I run my algorithm, my IDE lags horribly and the .exe generated also lags terribly. Using the CPU analyzer, ...
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2D A* Path-Finder
I have re-coded my entire path-finding class, it used to follow Dijkstra's Algorithm, while also being super inefficient, using Lists and a lot of other bad things that I had/have no idea about.
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Prepend data to stream in C#
I'm working on an XNA project that loads several resources that are packed into a single file. XNA can take a WAV file stream and turn that into a SoundEffect (seen below in "case ".wav"").
Since ...
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Entities and the things they do
So I have an Entity, which is responsible for providing an abstract base for other objects to inherit. (Like Actor objects, ...
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XNA KeyboardStateManager
This class allows for easy management of the KeyboardState of an XNA game.
It provides a simple, easy-to-use API for interacting with the Keyboard and getting key-...
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RPG game using XNA
I know this code needs some organization like classes, enums, methods, arrays or something but I just want to know if I could have created a character movement script, thereby shortening the code ...
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Memory usage in Reversi board state
I'm coding a Reversi game, with an artificial intelligence using the MinMax as the search algorithm. My concern is that (most) search algorithms needs to store a lot of instances of "states", in my ...
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Creating a set of buffers for tiles
I am currently converting a 2D game to 3D, never having worked with 3D before I am trying to learn as I go. I am wondering what the best way to use vertex/index buffers is.
I am currently looping ...
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Interface for a transformable grid
I am working on an XNA project, and since procedural generation is likely to be used, I wanted to eventually create a helper class to work with data to facilitate that.
Design Goal:
Originally, I ...
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How can I better handle images that I don't need drawn anymore (for now)?
For minimalist sake, let's say I have an image of a button in a game and on the screen.
When you left-click the button, it will disappear. If you right-click (anything), the button will reappear.
I'm ...
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Is my code overdesigned? Does it rely too heavily on interfaces? [closed]
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I am using XNA to create a simple game / learning project.
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I have three interfaces, each with a different purpose in mind. However, the way I use them, as well as their ...
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Smoke particle system
Please note that I'm working on a game on Windows Phone 8 using Monogame. The game is fine (60 FPS) all the time, except when the particle system is activated. This is just a smoke particle system ...
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Encapsulation, fields and properties for Asteroid class
After changing all variables in this code from public to private and adding get/...
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Turn multiple key presses into single GameAction
The InputHandler class for my game detects key presses, turns each one into a GameAction, and raises an event:
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Sprite animation handler
When a user presses a key in my game, their avatar can move down, left, right or up. By move, I mean their avatar animates while various other things move around them on the screen. This is ...
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Improving XNA's default project template
I hope this isn't getting annoying, but I've asked a lot of questions about improving my game lately:
How can I improve my game project design?
Using the observer pattern with collision detection
Is ...
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GameState Management efficiency
So I've read numerous tutorials on handling game states in XNA, and to each tutorial I've been read, it was different from the others. Now I want to ask which way is more efficient? I've created my ...
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Using the observer pattern with collision detection
My Game class has a property of type Player, which inherits from Entity:
player = new Player( "knight.png" );
It also has a property of type World, which has a ...
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Position update loop and checking collision
I'm writing a laser connection game. This is my first game on Windows Phone, and I've never used C# and XNA before.
The part of my code that could be improved is ...
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Sprite animation for a game
I'm just getting started with XNA and game development in general. I followed these instructions to create a basic game, then this article to get sprite animations working.
Now, I'm trying to ...
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Determine if an int is within range
Can I somehow make this a bit cleaner using Math.[Something], without making a method for it?
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Distance checking of normalized vectors?
I've been learning C#/XNA in an attempt to make a game for the past few weeks so maybe this is an obvious newbie thing, but here goes:
I've been making a fairly simple 2D game, so I have a list of ~...
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I was wondering if there was a better way to improve my XNA joystick code? (Vb. Net)
I'm on a high school robotics team and I'm trying to code a Xbox 360 controller so that it'll controller the motors with variable speed. So far it works alright, but where I'm quite the novice coder I'...
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C#/XNA interface usage, repeating functions
Essentially I'm wondering if this implementation of an interface is correct. I mostly don't like having to repeat the exact same getters and setters. Is there a better way or is this alright?
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Sorting entities by Z in every call to Draw
My implementation contains a SpriteComponent class which has a Z property; I use this to determine the order in which to draw my ...
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MVC in XNA game development - rudimentary MVC GameEngine
I've read a lot about using MVC in game development and it seems to be a good way (speaking of testing, code reusing, etc ...)
I created a XNA project and tried to implement MVC. But I'm not sure if ...
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Optimizing lighting algorithm for a voxel engine
I am creating a Minecraft-like terrain engine in XNA to learn HLSL and more XNA. The problem is my lighting algorithm. Whenever a block which emits light is placed, it takes about half a second to ...
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