Old Code
Last week I rediscovered a 12 year old game project I was working on. I decided to look at it and write a blog about it. Here's a summary: Part 1:...
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Post Mortem: Personal Labor Day "Game Jam" - Day 2
Day 2I started day 2 pleased with that I had a playable game at the end of the first day, but it wasn't finished yet. Cracking on, I set myself some...
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Post Mortem: Personal Labor Day "Game Jam" - Day 1
MotivationIt's been a long time since I've done anything directly game related in my spare time. I work 40+ hours a week on video games and by the...
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Chamois - Fluent Assertion Syntax for C++
One library that I love in .NET is Fluent Assertions. It takes assertion syntax in Unit Tests and wraps it up in a natural language syntax. Doing so,...
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On C++ Naming Conventions
I threw myself back into the deep end of C++ again a few months ago, having spent the last couple of years with an emphasis on C# and .NET.One thing...
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First version of FlatBuffers in .NET
I've committed by first alpha version of the FlatBuffers port to .NET to GitHub.Since my last post, I decided to port the Java version to .NET as...
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FlatBuffers in .NET
I've been tinkering with Google's new FlatBuffers protocol and have an experimental port of it running in .NET (C#).FlatBuffers is interesting and...
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Porting Accidental Noise Library to .NET
I've been inspired by the images that JTippetts' Accidental Noise Library can generate. However, these days I do very little C++ work so I felt like...
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How Uncle Bob, Fowler & Beck, nCrunch and ReSharper changed my code
I've been trying to do Test Driven Development (TDD) for quite some time and struggled. I've always been what I would term a "traditional" coder -...
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Cloudy Requests
For the past year or so I've been working on Cloud Services for Fable Legends. I've been thinking of writing some articles on the subject... So an...
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Ocyphaps
I've changed quite a few things since my last entry. First of all, I hit a wall in my Unity rip-off component system. Quite simply, I found it really...
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Data 'ponents
I've been working (slowly) on the Unity-like Component System that backs my current game project. As time goes on, it's becoming less and less like...
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Articles submitted
This weekend I submitted not one, but two articles to Gamedev.net. They're about Microsoft's awesome cloud service Team Foundation Service. I hope...
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More on MonoGame/XNA Components
Have been slowly plugging away at my Combat Prototype for my game. I've kept a clean separation of the "Engine" and "Game", with each being in...
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More on Components
The past few days I've been implementing the Component-Entity model in my current game prototype. I didn't like the way it was progressing in my...
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Test-driven: Or, how I saw the light
T minus 1 month.In my current project I'm working with a rare-breed programmer. An SDET, a Software Development Engineer in Test. These guys are...
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Riff: Understanding Component-Entity-Systems
First of all, Boreal Games has posted a great intro article to Component-Entity Systems. If you've not read it yet, I strongly suggest you do.This...
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Unity eh?
So in my last post I mentioned how I've decided to use Unity to build out my game. Having prototyped some basic concepts I've quickly realised that...
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Poking around Unity
For the past couple of weeks I've turned my time to dissecting the problem statement "If I were to build a simple casual game in the Supercell mould,...
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2012 - A retrospective
First of all, I apologise for not being around as much as I used to be. GDNet used to be my #1 visited site, but lately I hardly ever poke around....
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