2d-games

Recently I worked on a 2D Game using SurfaceView and I learned a lot about game loops and everything. But now I want to make the same game using OpenGL. I read that the GLSurfaceView is the class that would be relative to what SurfaceView was. But I'm not sure about other things as: Using SurfaceView , I used the Bitmap class to load a image resource that would be lets say a character. And that bitmap would be a property of my Character class. And for the gameloop I used a different Thread I'm new to OpenGL so I'd like to know how to load image resources (do I load them using the Bitmap class?

I am relatively new to game development. I have been developing games and studying game development for 2-3 months now. I use Java. I have always used Swing for my graphics (aka, the entire game is displayed on a JPanel , using a Graphics2D object). I had no trouble with this up until now. Very recently, I came across a problem in my most recent project. Some method has problems with being called in consistent time intervals (sometimes it runs every 15-16 milliseconds, as it should, and sometimes it starts to run every 3000 (!) milliseconds). I did some frustrating debugging and some research,

I started to develop a game under Delphi XE5 for iOS. I have problem with the Resolution feature of the Firemonkey. When I open the screen and I check resolution on the iPhone I get 320x480. But the native resolution of the iPhone 4 and 5 is doubled. I found at official Delphi pages that FireMonkey is recalculating the screen by "Resolution" which is for Retina display 2. I think this is cool feature for regular apps, but when you start to do game and you want to manipulate with images by code it brings weird situations. My question is - is there way to find the actual Resolution value or at

The new Unity 4.6 comes with a new GUI, when I change de resolution on Unity the UI Button scales perfectly but when I test on the Nexus 7 device the Button looks too small. Any idea how to solve this? Unity's new GUI system uses "anchors" to control how gui elements (like buttons) scale in relation to their parent container. Unity has a tutorial video on how to use the new "Rect Transform" component (where the anchors are configured) here: http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/ui/rect-transform . The last half of the tutorial is all about anchors. That page has links to the

I'm working on a simple 2D game, rendering via the Java2D API. I've noticed that when I try to draw on integrated graphics card the performance crashes. I've tested this game on both my main rig with a newer ATI Radeon and my 5 year old laptop which also has an (incredibly antiquated) Radeon. On both I get good FPS, but when I try to use my Intel i5's onboard HD 4000 graphics, it crawls at around 20 FPS. I'm using Full Screen Exclusive mode. At any given moment, I am rendering approximately 1000 images at once. Annoyingly, when I try to getAvailableAcceleratedMemory() it just returns -1 for