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Monday, October 20, 2008 11:58 AM

Tick-Tock Game Clock

There are some things needed in a game that are independent of the graphics system. One of them is the system used to keep track of time passing as the game runs. I prefer to work with a delta-time based system. This means that we figure out how much...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:58 PM

Making GDI+ Nimble

One thing that the GDI+ (System.Drawing namespace in VB.Net) system is *not* is overly quick. It does a great job of certain things required by a more general, modern OS-based drawing system -- fonts, alpha, lines & shapes, etc. But it isn't game...
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