Discussions about game's playing

Which online game you are playing in your free time? After hard day of working or in weekends, sure you want to do something different, what about playing games online? Which website you are playing on? and which gamed you like the most? Started by Amr ElGarhy on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 19 posts by 18 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Their badges and XP link, but you can probably find an online place to .... For casual games I like to play on Kongregate . I play the only game worth playing: Counter Strike been playing that a lot lately.

Playing games in Macbook Pro I have a Macbook Pro that has a separate video card, useful for games. However most games are for PC So if I want to play a PC game on my Macbook Pro, can I play it in a virtual window under Snow Leopard, or should I boot into Windows instead? Started by Phenom on Sunday, February 21, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Modern PC games use advanced graphicsYou can play them in a Virtual Window if you'd like, but keep in mind that some resources and possibly lowering performance .... It depends what kind of game you want to play. Environment.

Where can I find free playing card images for use in creating games? I'm looking for some free-to-use-for-any-purpose (public domain, BSD-license, etc.) playing card images for use in games. I found a pretty nice collection at http://www.jfitz.com/cards/ , but was wondering what other nice collections might be available... Started by Kristopher Johnson on Sunday, December 13, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Alternatively, you might use those used in Linux distributions.. Thehouseofcards.com/card_images.html http://www.fontriver.com/font/playing_cards/ Why don't you create your own playing card images in openclipart .

Firefox Crashes when watching video or playing flash games Firefox crashes on me when I'm watching videos or playing flash games. Once in awhile, instead of just firefox crashing it'll result in a full blown blue screen with "irql_not_less_or_equal." Any advice? EDIT: After reinstalling flash to the latest version... Started by Tio on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): I would recommend you to reinstall. Watching videos and playing flash games have "Flash" in common.

Would you not hire a programmer because of excessive game playing outside of work? Saw an article on this forum thread and wanted to get people's opinions here. Should hiring decisions be influenced by someone's game playing habits? Is this a fair reason to exclude someone from employment as a programmer? Do you feel that the concerns... Started by sk on Thursday, December 18, 2008, 18 posts by 18 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): It's not game-playing per se, but any out of hours to why programmers are fired , I wouldn't rule someone out simply because they play a game heavily at the local children's.... Otherwise... In the personal interests section.

Playing sounds in iPhone games - slowdowns I'm using the AVAudioPlayer to play sound FX on a separate thread in my app. Right now my app is fairly simple, I have a UIScrollView for a scrolling background, and a couple of CALayers that represent a player and an enemy in a simple side-scroller type... Started by Jonas on Tuesday, March 03, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): This alone could cause a stutter in a game and is alsoHow are you playing the sound? If I was to make a guess it would be that each time the sound is played the OS is actually loading.... To be creating a new thread to play a sound.

Playing small sounds in Java game For the computer game I'm making, I obviously want to play sound. So far, I've been using AudioClip to play WAV files. While this approach works fine, the WAV files tend to be gigantic. A few seconds of sound end up being hundreds of kB. I'm faced with... Started by Zarkonnen on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): For working sample usage you can look at these files here . You could use JOrbis library to play back OGG music. Hope this helps. And you won't notice the difference in quality while playing the game.

Designing class hierarchy for typical characters in role playing game I'm trying to design a simple role playing game which has your typical character types like fighter, wizard, cleric, theif, etc. I need advice on a good way to setup the class hierarchy. My initial attempt was to create a class of type "Character" and... Started by mikedev on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Should grab yourself a good book on design patterns.... Own cool d20 based RPG video game", A character and adventure/party management suite of software look at this other SO question for a link to an video game engine that implements a d20.

Is there any sophisticated role-playing game framework available? I'm looking for a role-playing game framework which fulfills the following critera: Open source / Free for non-commercial Targeted language doesn't matter as long as it's not too obscure (C# or Java would be great) The framework doesn't have to provide... Started by DR on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Since it's based on the Infinity Engine, I would assume that all of the last three requirements apply ... . It's licensed under the GPL and written in C++ and Python if I'm not mistaken . Baldur's Gate). Check out GemRB , a port of the Infinity Engine (i.e .

How to have creatures keeping track of each other in a role playing game I'm programming a role playing game for fun and to learn. I am planning on having an overall game world and in that game world I plan on having "zones" that players and monsters can move around on. Let's just say the "zones" are 20x20 grids and each "... Started by mikedev on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): If you build a "Zone" container class that represents.... Alternately, you could create a base class for all "Actors" in the game. A very simple approach would be to represent the game board terrain type, etc. Structure, but this is rather complex.