Elysian Shadows

I am currently designing the data storage for my game and some of my data may be best stored in a linked list; however, I am also looking into storing other data in text files to keep my data files as small as possible. Ideally, I would use a database to store this data, but due to overhead and file...

Do you have a website url handy where I might find a list of the "rules of thumb" or do I just search "rules of thumb" and C++?

ok, I know some people combine them now and I was curious as to if there was any performance increase by doing so or if it was mearly a matter of preference.

Ok, I haven't programmed in C++ in awhile and am picking it up again having spent the last several years working in C#. When I originally took my undergrad classes, we would split a class into a header file and an implementation file. Is this still the norm or have things progressed to a new standard?

When I was working one of my previous jobs, I had a project we jokingly called "The project that would not end." It had all kinds of feature creep. We forced the users to sign off on requirements and stuck to that list of requirements. Any additional requests were pushed to Version 2.

They have had been through a great deal of trials and tribulations to arrive at chapter 18. It is currently in production and we await the final upload.(Whenever that happens) At the very minimum they have been through a major tornado outbreak that I believe did some damage to their dev studio. They...

thanks for the response. It at least gives me something a starting place. Ogre doesn't have physics built in but there are ways that you can connect it to Bullet physics. I would just need to figure out if I can do this in the Physics side or if I would have to pass something from the physics to the...

I am in the process of learning about 3D graphics programming and digging into the Ogre Rendering Engine/API. I am wanting to take a model of a football player and have him move down a football field. Most football players run 40 yds in a certain amount of time 4.3 seconds for example. Many of you k...

What is the best SceneManager to use for an outdoor scene set in a stadium?

I beta tested this over the Thanksgiving Holiday and it seems pretty solid. I only had a few minor issues with it which I resolved before the weekend was up. I plan on going Jedi Knight at some point. I'm not sure when I'll purchase. I'd like to see more on their pricing structure first.

Anyone who has XBOX Live should check this out. I don't think it's worth purchasing but, it's down right hilarious.

Upon further consideration I think I 'll go with binary files. I figure I can separate different things into different files and then use something similar to a pak file to combine them for easy storage/transport.

I dev using xna, but haven't gotten far enough to get a dev account to deploy for the xbox

C#...I'm leaning more so toward using SQLite.