ENEMY HIDEOUT

I saw the whirlpool in the new hearthstone gameplay video and I was hypnotized by it for some reason. I figured this is probably a shader…but how does it work? I was determined to see how. My[…]

I have just released version 1.2 of Project Search & Replace with a few new features. The free version, Project Search, has also been updated as well but most of these features are in the full version[…]

One of the more problematic aspects of any programming is race conditions. Frequently code is dependent on other code that is dependent on other code. So what techniques can we use to make sure that[…]

Singletons are a type of object used frequently in computer programming. As wikipedia says: …the singleton pattern is a design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one object. This is useful when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across[…]

Let’s talk gameplay. What’s the difference between, say, ‘gameplay’ programming and other programming? If you are developing a game, you might need to make lots of things: shaders, engine, lighting, modeling, animation, in-app purchases, banhammers, web sites,[…]

I’m working on a series of posts to talk about some basic concepts in game development. Similar to my Source Code Archive this post will contain a list of all articles within the series. Games 101: Data[…]

As I work on my Project Search & Replace tool I get to learn a lot about the internals of Unity. I’m currently adding the ability to search and replace prefab instances to the tool(edit: now out[…]

This is a post that I’ve been meaning to write for a while, mainly so that I can refer to it when someone can’t understand why I use SVN. So Git. Its the Golden Hammer[…]