Computing has come a long way in the past few decades. Originally, programmers used to write code by themselves, using punch cards, and only later be allowed to run them on machines. The end result was a process of writing code and debugging as completely separated steps. I never used punch cards (I’m not that […]
Continue reading →A week or so ago, I started toying with the idea of creating a tweening solution for Unity. Trying experimental tweening solutions are the kind of thing I find myself always spending time with: in the work I usually do, tweening is something I constantly have to deal with, and I strive to find the […]
Continue reading →Every Thursday morning at Firstborn is “Scrummy Thursday”. For one hour, Firstborn developers present random topics to each other. Those are usually little, 15-minute presentations on projects we’ve worked or things we discovered, and it is meant as a way to share knowledge among the development team. It’s a nice idea, and it has been […]
Continue reading →In preparation for the next Ludum Dare, I have finished adding all advanced sound synthesis features first introduced by BFXR to usfxr, my own Unity port of the SFXR game audio synthesis engine. The new version is 1.2 and is available as a zip download on the GitHub usfxr repository (the asset store version will be updated […]
Continue reading →Now that usfxr has an in-editor window for audio generation right inside Unity, I’m considering it stable. I’ll probably do a few benchmarks in the future to improve any performance bottlenecks I’m able to identity, and maybe add a few more examples to the repository, but for all intents and purposes it is production-ready. Given […]
Continue reading →After creating an updated version of my latest Ludum Dare game, I decided to use it as an exercise in web publishing of games. To me, the interesting thing about publishing a game on a web portal – even one as simple and rough as one created in a little bit more than 48 hours […]
Continue reading →The BASIC language is now 50 years old. TIME Magazine has a cool article on it and how it came to be. When I started using computers, first with a ZX81 clone, then an Apple II clone, and then a MSX 1.0 clone, BASIC was the only thing that I knew exusted. It was synonym […]
Continue reading →Once again, a Ludum Dare game compo has ended. This means I spent this past weekend creating a game from scratch, and even though it’s a simple thing, I think this is the first time I can say I created a more well-rounded game experience for Ludum Dare. The result is called Escape Enclosures Expeditiously […]
Continue reading →After a lot of breaking things, refactoring, and testing, I’ve finally merged the experimental branch of KeyActionBinder into the main branch of the project. The biggest change, of course, is making the functionality of this gamepad support library more automatic, in the sense that it tries to detect whatever game device the user has connected […]
Continue reading →When I am programming something that requires a module or a sub-system of any kind, my first impulse is to always write it myself; sometimes, even rewriting things I had already written before. While there’s a danger in doing too much of this and avoiding well-established solutions to common problems – the syndrome of Not Invented […]
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