Questions tagged [games]
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How can I mix this grid to guarantee it being solvable in X minimum steps?
Note: This question is not about this particular instance of this grid with these exact words, but about any combination of words. I am programming a puzzle game where you have to arrange a grid of ...
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How to implement state machine to card games such as poker or russian poker?
These are my class designs: I also have Controllers where I can create table, create users add users to table, deal hands simulate user bets using PostMan (Above classes are game engine classes, I ...
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Snake Game design
I am designing Classic Snake game using OOPS.I will have the following classes at top level : Game { Board board, Snake snake; } Board { Cell cells[]; } Cell { int x, int y, ...
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pruning tree search in multiplayer zero-sum games with loss conditions
I'm trying to write a program to play a simple multiplayer (it's safe to assume less than 10 players) game where each player has a number of resources. Every turn the players make decisions that ...
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What is done when an urgent fix for an app is needed but updates have to be approved by Apple/Google etc?
I have very little experience in this area, so sorry if I use any incorrect terminology or if this is a stupid/simplistic question in general. But from what I understand, when a developer wants to ...
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Game loops and components
I researched a lot about game loops but most of the explanations I found credible also stay at a high level. I still don't understand the functionality of the components in a game loop. Let's consider:...
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What does it mean when something is hard-coded like in gaming?
I'm trying to remove some restrictions programmed into a game like Sims 3 but some features like age restriction are hard-coded in the game's code so I read some tutorials and I found out that it's ...
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How can a html 5 game made licensed?
How a HTML5 game can be buyable? I mean, if it is HTML, even though you obfuscate the code or apply encryption, the whole html and javascript is already on your browser means you already have the ...
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Are user generated PW's a thing of the past for most apps?
I'm making a online game where I need to preserve some things for the players so each will have an account. However, I don't want to get into the business of storing user created passwords since that'...
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What kind of pointer bug is this specifically?
UncommentatedPannen's (pannenkoek2012) newest video describes a glitch in the Nintendo 64 game Super Mario 64, which allows an object to push Mario out of bounds, which isn't normally possible, by ...
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Monte Carlo Tree Search for TicTacToe doesn't block opponent's winning moves
I've made a program to play TicTacToe against a human using a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with UCB1 for node selection. The program will play moves until it wins but it will not make any attempts ...
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When implementing Monte Carlo Tree Search for TicTacToe, do I simulate won states?
I'm trying to debug my MCTS implementation for TicTacToe (it doesn't block obvious wins for the opponent). I was wondering what the algorithm should do if it expands to a node which is a game over ...
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Programming a good puzzle game (Puyo Puyo) AI
I'm trying to build a strong AI for a game called Puyo Puyo, in Matlab (I know... but it's the only language I know well). Basically it's like Tetris but you get falling pairs of 2 puyos (blobs) of ...
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Sudoku Solver BackTracking vs Simulated Annealing
Before you read any further, assume you know what sudoku game and how to go about solving it. So I have created a sudoku solver with brute-force: The algorithm goes as calculate(through an simple ...
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Question about the uses of matrices in games and 3D graphics [closed]
So I know that matrices are used extensively in the field of games and 3D graphics, for example, you need to know how to do matrix multiplication if you want to understand how scaling an object works, ...
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