Note: The first thing on my list for the next Unity article was the decal system, but not only the code would need some serious revamp to be presentable, what would take some time, but unfortunately I lost the disk with the latest version in the move, I have an old backup but I still Read more about Unity – Toon/cel shading with bitmap gradient lookup in deferred rendering[…]
This is it! I’m leaving the Google Play Store for good! I never expected to make money from it because I started publishing too late when the market was already overly saturated, but I thought publishing some free games there could at very least result in some increased exposure and by consequence more work opportunities, Read more about Bidding Farewell to Google Play Store[…]
In a hurry? Jump to: TL;DR. Make sure you have installed the latest MonoGame. The version I’m using is 3.5 (for Visual Studio installed using the official installer, not NuGet). The Farseer Physics Engine is a C# Box2D port that’s very popular among C# developers, it’s hand-optimized and believe it or not, it performs even Read more about Farseer Physics Samples on Visual Studio 2015 (MonoGame)[…]
This is a quick game I’ve made past weekend. It’s a totally free and ad-free, ‘no-strings-attached’ release. It’s similar to other games but the level generator algorithm is unique, at higher levels you can play solely by keeping a consistent rhythm between your taps. It only includes leaderboards (Google Play) so you can compete with Read more about Ninja Wheel available on Google Play[…]
Yesterday I’ve published an article on packing bits, I still don’t know if there’s a library out there that allows you to do that easily and efficiently so I’m using my own functions for that purpose. However, a popular way to pack bytes into other data types is the BitConverter class. Please note the functionality Read more about Packing and Unpacking Bits Faster than BitConverter[…]
C# doesn’t provide Bit Fields like C++, and as far as I know the smallest data you can work with is a byte (8 bits). For most cases that’s fine, but sometimes you may want to micromanage every single bit of your memory, and although C# isn’t the most recommended language if you need to Read more about Mind your bits, will you?[…]
When I say the Mono version that ships with Unity is slow, people get curious. I’d say it’s substantially slower compared to the recent versions of the MS .NET Framework. This is a quick post so I’m not going into the details of individual numbers for the IL or JIT or CLR overhead. If you’re Read more about Unity Mono – A Very Simple Benchmark[…]
I’m making a game that contains a massive and very complex cellular automation grid (like ‘game of life’) for the map. It’s basically a 2D side-scroller, but the whole map is dynamic. My plan is to achieve 8192×1024 wrap-around (on X) maps. First I’ve made a simple prototype with classes for the objects. I’m using Read more about CPU cache optimization and multi-threading in C#[…]