In solo game development, you can’t just stick to your strong suit. …

Whether you’re a backend, UI, web, or full-stack developer, much of the Software Development toolkit looks similar. Even when the exact tools are different, the toolkit translates intuitively between fields: version control systems, debugging and profiling tools, editors and language servers, and package managers work together similarly. What do these…

Let’s talk about all the ways you can play and manage audio in your game. Audio makes an interesting topic; it’s relatively easy to get some audio playing in your game, but it’s often unclear how to move from the simplest use case to a slightly more complex one. This…

While most Software Engineers interested in game development will be most excited about the programming aspect of making a game, you’ll need some familiarity with graphics, animation, and sound to be successful. This is especially true if you’re trying to work solo. While a wealth of assets and resources are…

We already discussed Game Objects and Components as two of the fundamental building blocks of the Unity Engine. Today, we’ll discuss their programmatic representation. This is Unity for Software Engineers, a series for folks familiar with software development best practices seeking an accelerated introduction to Unity as an engine and…

Last year, I wrote about migrating this blog to Next.js. It ended up being a huge post, so I wrote a<TOC> React component to make it more navigable. The bulk of the logic for this component is based on Emma Goto’s great examples in her “ How to build a…

There’s a little-known pattern in software architecture that deserves more attention. Data-Oriented Architecture was first described by Rajive Joshi in a 2007 whitepaper at RTI, and again in 2017 by Christian Vorhemus and Erich Schikuta at the University of Vienna in this iiWAS paper. DOA is an inversion of the…

Those picking up Unity will likely have a lot of questions about the Unity Editor. How do I navigate it? What is a good development workflow using the Editor as my IDE? Can I circumvent the editor and just do things programmatically? This article will give you a brief tour…

Reflections on the long, windy road to progress. — To this date, schema-dts is the only side-project I have that achieved better-than-moderate success. It took several hours between the time I had the idea for schema-dts and when I had a reasonably working v0.1. …