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MrCranky

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

blackcompanystudios.co.uk

Age: 34

Run a games development studio in Edinburgh, specialising in small scale prototypes, outsourced software support, and tools and process improvement.
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Remove gradient background from UIWebView?
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“Press Start” screen - why?
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Are there important cases when one needs to know how to program sort algorithms in game programming?
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What's the best head-bob formula?
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Was C++ designed for speed, and is it better to not use high level features when teaming with inexperienced programmers?
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Correct way to abstract an XBox Controller
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What is an achievable way of setting content budgets (e.g. polygon count) for level content in a 3D title?
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How do I make my rain effect look more like rain and less like snowfall?
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What are the hot dev positions in game industry?
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How to organize a game engine in C++? Is my use of inheritance a good idea?
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'Zoning' up areas on a large tile map, as well as dungeons
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Why registering for push notifications every time a user launch an app?
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How would you handle different aspect ratios in a 2d platformer?
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How do I design a game framework for fast reaction to user input?
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How do you prevent inflation in a virtual economy?
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Cyclic Dependencies
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How to tie a bullet release with a firing animation
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Find a line that connects the outer most points in a set of points
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Algorithm to see if two voxels are interconnected
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How to handle Multiple-accounts creation and cheating?
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Anti-Cheat for MMOs issues and solutions?
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What's a good data structure solution for a scene manager in XNA?
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How to build a “traffic AI”?
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What does “kTriangles/s” mean in hardware graphics benchmark reports?
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List of resolutions
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Easiest way to compute closest point between two triangular meshes
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How do I determine my games minimum hardware/software requirements?
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