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Typhoon - Action Game
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~ Typhoon ~
Typhoon is a fast paced shooting game based around a board that must be defended. . I'm developing it for the OMGCup competition as a tribute to the original arcade classic Tempest. So far development time has been approximately 35 h... |
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Posted November 1, 2005 12:58:44 AM
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I would have thought that would be pretty dependent on hardware - and I'd expect rendering would still end up being your bottleneck unless you're doring some seriously heavy procesing in update().
Even so, I've never run 1000's of sprites, b... |
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Posted February 28, 2006 3:33:05 PM
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I'd absolutely only take one delta reading otherwise you might update some entities by X seconds and some entities by Y seconds in a single game loop - that could lead to some really wierd and hard to debug problems.
Personally I have an... |
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Posted February 28, 2006 3:12:10 PM
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Nope, just measure the delta between frames, update based on that. I do use another thread for networking, but as others have pointed out this wouldn't work if it were truely seperate from the rendering loop. In my case, I have the other thread... |
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Posted February 28, 2006 2:16:17 PM
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Time based movement isn't exactly hard to implement and gives you more flexibility later on. I've used it quite happily for ages.
Kev |
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Posted February 28, 2006 1:27:24 PM
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Indexed color images
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You need to be looking at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/image/IndexColorModel.html
and of course BufferedImage.
Kev |
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Posted December 23, 2005 9:07:37 AM
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Red: Space Trucker
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Nice particles and stunning backdrops! Nice work!
Kev |
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Posted November 10, 2005 3:39:51 AM
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Typhoon - Action Game
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Fair enough, good points well made. The game infact used to be entitled Tempest and did reference Tempest on the website - I'm not trying to take any credit away from them - however, I was advised (infact through this very site) that having refe... |
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Posted November 1, 2005 12:18:35 PM
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Typhoon - Action Game
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Trying to shy away from its heritige at the moment :) Although it has alot in common with a great arcade game its not actually the same in many respects (not as good some might say ;))
Kev |
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Posted November 1, 2005 10:05:22 AM
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