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  • Project Search & Replace v1.2: Whole Lotta Features

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    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 only. Check out the video overview: Really digging these latest additions, and I hope you do, too! I’ve been using…

  • Games 101: The Semi-Rules of the Unity Life Cycle

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    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 our code initializes and runs without issue? These are my unwritten (no longer!) rules about the cycle of life of…

  • Games 101: Making Singletons My Way

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    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 the system. So that means you only have one of the class, and you can access it anywhere. Using a…

  • Games 101: Coding Gameplay

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    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, the list goes on. But these things do not a game make. Gameplay makes a game. Gameplay is what you…

  • Game Development

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    This page is the portal into various game dev articles I’ve written. Similar to my Source Code Archive.

  • Project Search & Replace: Free Version, More Videos, More Features

    Project Search & Replace: Free Version, More Videos, More Features

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    In an attempt to shamelessly get Project Search & Replace into people’s hands, I’ve created a free version: Project Search. Free Version: Project Search Like its bigger brother, Project Search allows you to search across an entire project but is feature limited: Replace is not available. Search Scope is not available. Search while the application…

  • Stupid Prefab Tricks

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    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 in v1.1!), and I’ve also written a free utility for prefabs (scroll down to the Prefab Hierarchy Inspector or check it…

  • Why Git is Not Good for Games.

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    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 of version control. Its really good for making Twitter so its great for games, right? It seems people are taught…

  • Howto: Remapping the Animation Hierarchy in Unity

    Howto: Remapping the Animation Hierarchy in Unity

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    Working with animations in Unity has some quirks. Sometimes I will make an animation and I animated the wrong object. I might have realized I want to animate the container for an object, or accidentally animated the parent when I wanted to animate the child (this happens more often than I’d like to admit!). Unity does…

  • Games 101: Data Structures in Games

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    Frequently people’s first foray into programming is in games. Sometimes developers come from other disciplines such as design or QA. Frequently I see the same programming mistakes occur due to a lack of understanding of basic data structures. I’ve made them, it seems everyone makes them. So I hope to spread some data structure love (using C#/Unity…