Behavioral Java Game Developer Interview Preparation Guide

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Briefly, yes. Zynga's Café World and PlayFish's Restaurant City uses Away3D.

I think developers might use more of 3d engines because 3d is not everyone's cup of tea - they can just focus on implementing game logic and mechanics instead of meddling with math. However they would shy away from game engines like Flixel, for reasons that Nick Wiggill has mentioned. (eg. risk of middleware)

☛ a) Garbage Collector : Non-deterministic memory management could be a problem
☛ b) Lack of third party libraries: Most of the available libraries do not support Java. Java has huge class library built in but they are not game related
☛ c) Not supported by game Console: Java is not supported by popular game consoles.
☛ d) Smaller Community: Most game programmers use C++ , so if you are developing games on Java, you can expect least help from others as very few programmers can give you the solution for your query.

Every game design needs play testing by many different players. Usually each player tries a different strategy, and so the designer can see which strategies pay off best. A good game design permits many different strategies, balanced so they offer equal chances of success.

Various tools required for developing games are
☛ a) Eclispse: Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
☛ b) ADT- Android’s Eclipse Plugin
☛ c) Android SDK-includes ADB
☛ d) Hudson- Automatic build tool

I would say that I am very creative in areas that I am good at producing materials for, and would be more than happy to learn about areas I am not so good at and be more creative in them.

To reduce game lag you can either lower the performance setting for the game or by upgrading certain parts on your computer.

In my opinion, the best game of all time is Minecraft, because of the endless possibilities. You can build, fight, survive, socialize. Minecraft, from building a little hut to building a giant castle.

Vertex Buffer Object is a method for uploading vertex data to the video device for non-immediate mode rendering. Vertex Buffer Object is an OpenGL feature.

Some of the HTML 5 framework game engines are
☛ a) Construct 2
☛ b) Turbulence
☛ c) CAAT
☛ d) Phaser etc.

Doom, Quake, pretty much all id games up until id Tech 4.

It would be an open world video game and it has to be mmorpgs. I live actions fantacy and others.

The basic structure for developing game is
☛ a) The game interface
☛ b) The implementation of the interface
☛ c) The game source code

The storage methods used in android are
☛ a) Shared Preferences: Store private primitive data in key value pairs Internal Storage: Storage of private data on device memory
☛ b) External Storage: Storage of public data on shared external storage
☛ c) Network Connection: With your own network server you store data on the web
☛ d) SQLite Databases: In private database it stores structured data

In Cloud gaming, the game is hosted on a game server in a data center, and the user is only running a client locally which forwards game controller actions upstream to the game server.

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Is there some place that I can go to get an ID or the 'canonical' name for these games? I suspect that they are the same game, but it's very hard to say for certain.

There are times when one needs to use the exact copy of an object for a specific purpose, without changing the actual object in any way. The option, in this case, is to create another similar object, which will require a greater amount of memory to be expensed, and this is where the construct of object cloning provided by java comes to prove beneficial.
The clone() methods of the object class implement the concept of object cloning but require the implementation of the java.lang.A cloneable interface of the object class whose clone you are trying to create. Devoid of this, a CloneNotSupportedException is generated by the clone() method of the class.

The advantage of using packed buffers is that it is more efficient for the GPU to render, since all of the information needed to render is located within the same block of memory. The drawback of packed buffer is that it would be difficult and slower to update if you are using dynamic data.

Bitbucket is a code hosting service and not a file sharing service. It is compatible for small size game development, but if you are handling extremely large files or frequently changing binary files Github would not be useful. Bitbucket can’t display differences on binaries

Service Stack for services and serves up XML, JSON etc. Amazing in general for setting up the services. Also cross platform.

As far as 'DB communication', if you are able to use Windows Server for hosting, Entity Framework works well, however is code gen but very easy to use and code against. There might be alternatives like DbLinq (Linq To SQL for Mono), but haven't tried it so not sure on how easy it is to use.

Obviously, this is only really an option if you don't mind coding all this in C# and doesn't take care of all the database design you'll have to do, but that kinda goes with game logic.

There are software applications that will allow you to make fully functional video games without any programming. But, keep in mind if you want to be really good you need to learn how to program.

The ‘this’ keyword is widely observed in all java codes and scripts, and it, in fact, is a reference variable which is used by programmers to refer to the current object in use. The method of the current class can be suitable invoked using the ‘this’ keyword. The java compiler implicitly adds the keyword to the method, if you do not specify the same.

FPS means frames per second, which tells about how much information is used to store and display motion video. Each frame is a still image, and the illusion of motion is created by displaying these frames in quick succession.

The load texture method will take in an image pointer and then load the image into a stream. The stream will then be loaded as a texture into OpenGL.

In online gaming, the delay between the action of players and the response time of the server is known as ‘Lag’.

There is plenty of prepackaged images and art that you can use either for free or by purchasing that you can use in your video games. But if you want to get really good then you have to put in the time to develop your artistic skills.