In my experience, there are some things that greatly affect the performance or my games, and some that do not, as much. Most Significant: Running lengthy code all of the time. This can be avoided, at least partly, by checking if any given code needs to be run that frame: if change == True: d...

I am making a game (called "Glory") that is a top-down explorer game, and am wondering what the advantages/disadvantages of using random/procedural generation vs. pre-made levels are. There seems to be few that i can think of, other than the fact that items may be a problem to distribute in ran...

After a little running around the internet I found an interesting article that shows a good example of how pirating can affect a game directly and shutdown a project. iOS Game, Battle Dungeon, Forced To Shut Down Due To Piracy In this article, Hunted Cow, the developers behind the iOS game Batt...

What type of AI I should implement for a card game like "Magic: The Gathering? There are so many cards in "Magic", more than 3000, that have crazy, differing rules with no real consistency. I think writing a BT or any more traditional system would be too much work. It would already be a lot of e...

This is an issue that is bugging me, a lot of the on hold questions can be improved, yet I feel like most people don't get the idea that their questions will be reopened once they are improved. I think it's our fault we are not conveying this idea correctly. And they feel like it won't be opened,...

What the advantages/disadvantages of using random/procedural generation vs. pre-made levels? There seems to be few that i can think of, other than the fact that items may be a problem to distribute in randomly generated terrain, and that the generated terrain may look weird. The downside to pr...