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Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs in a game, thus making it behave as expected.

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Since many users are facing the NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object error in Unity, I thought that it would be a good idea ...
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I've just started using unity tests with the built in editor tests. After making my test and finding out that it constantly failed I debugged the code and found that a static object was set to a new ...
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There are a few types of feedback you can get from playtesters, and I wonder how to best gather data for each of them... Crash Reports. When my C++ game crashes while someone is playing it, how do I ...
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I downloaded the gDEBugger from gremedy over a year ago, with their one year free license. The license has since expired and their site says that I'll be presented with the option for 1 year free ...
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I'm in the process of debugging GLSL vertex shaders and I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing it wrong. In general I have two strategies to make up for the lack of tracing I stuff values into a ...
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There's nothing quite like the routine of tweaking a variable, compiling code that takes a few minutes, executing the code, realizing that your tweak was in the wrong direction and repeating the ...
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I'm writing a game engine, and when I use a perspective camera I get a black screen. I am not going to ask exactly why this is because there would be a lot of code to share and, frankly, I think that'...
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I'm new to games programming and I'm working on a C#/XNA project. Something I'm spending a lot of time on is debugging. Obviously as games run in a loop finding the exact iteration that a bad ...
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Background I am following on from this question, which isn't answered yet. Basically I have a cube and a UVSphere in my scene, with UVSphere on the top of the cube without touching the cube. Both ...
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In Bullet Physics when I debug draw physics world the graphical mesh lags behind the collsion shape. ...
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I'm trying to get a simple cannon to rotate to point at the mouse, but I only want it to follow the mouse for 180 degrees and then stop following the mouse, and pick up again when the player re-enters ...
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I always get the error message "video system not initialized" I don't get where I went wrong with the code below: ...
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The Direct3D9 debug runtime's debug output does not appear to be working correctly. I linked against d3dx9d.lib instead of ...
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I have implemented Scene loading in my game and have three scenes: Persistent, Main Menu and ...
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When I try to use the GDScript code below, Godot gives me the error: error(23, 2) Error parsing expression, misplaced: func Why am I getting this error, and how can I fix it? Is there another input ...
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