’Cause all you really need is the right prototype… — Have you ever wondered how to pass in methods to your function calls in C#? Sure, we often have ints and strings as parameters, but can we have functions too? Well, actually, yes! Thanks to a great tool called C# delegates, it is possible to wrap methods in others in…

Let’s see how to create a basic system for your next RPG! — Sometimes, in games, you have some kind of resource management and you have to produce units, or items. This kind of system obviously has a lot of components to it, like the initial gathering, displaying the production interface, perhaps finding recipes, etc. Today, I want to focus on the interface…

Aka: when should I put an “f” after my floating point numbers in C#? — The first time I read a C# script, I was surprised to see “f”s after every number. See, I come from a Python background and, in my old world, when you wrote a number with some decimals, you’d simply put the number with its decimal dot in the middle —…

Because abstraction can save you lots of code repetitions! — As a dev, there is quite a common issue you may have to deal with when working on a growing project: code snippets that keep repeating over and over again here and there in the codebase. This happens quite often, because factorising code is hard and requires quite a lot…

Let’s learn to boost the behaviour of our C# objects without even creating new derived types! — How I discovered the tool In a previous article, I offered a (quick) intro to the C# Linq tool and how so useful I think it is. One reason I find it particularly user-friendly is because as soon as you’ve added the using System.Linq; import statement at the top of your file, all your arrays…

Let’s learn how this tool allows us to create efficient custom data types! — As a game creator, one of the important questions you’ll have to answer is: how is my data going to be stored in this project? With all the scripts, data files, sounds, images and other assets that compose a game, it can be hard to find a perfect project organisation! …

Let’s learn how to create a simple movement just with scripting… — Do you want to give the objects in your game scene a bit of life? How about animating a sphere with just 3 lines of code? Today, let’s see how we can make a simple hover animation for an object in C# :) 👁 Watch as a 20" video This tutorial is also available as…

Over the years, the Unity game engine has introduced plenty of features in variety of areas — from AI to tooling, asset management or rendering, they have kept us on our toes with ever new improvements. One of the most important ones to me these last few years has been…

Let’s see a cool trick for quickly moving game objects in edit mode… — Coding games fast is great, but what about preparing the scenes and positioning your objects in the right place? Wanna learn a neat technique for easily making a perfect circle with your currently selected objects? :) 👁 Watch as a 20" video This tutorial is also available as a short video — the text version is…