Do you really know how to play around with functions in C#? — One of the big perks of C# is that it is a strongly-typed language. This insures a certain stability with an early catching of errors at the compiling stage, good readability and maintainability for the future you or your co-workers, more accurate dev tools and, of course, slightly better performance. …

Let’s discover why C# records are a great easy-to-use feature to pack together some data! — After doing a bit of C#, you’ve probably dealt with classes and structs multiple times. Those are very common methods for creating custom types and they make it easy to define your own data. Starting with C# 9, there is, however, another less-known way to define your own types: records…

Today, let’s conclude our hack’n’slash tutorial series by doing a quick review of what we’ve learnt! — ⬅️ Tutorial #24: Adding some skills and powers! 2/2 | TOC And here we are: today is the final article in my tutorial series on how to make a hack’n’slash game in Unity/C#! …

Is there a “good” way to write C#? — When you program a project, the first step is always to have something that works. But then, when you’ve managed to implement your feature, it’s often a good thing to try and clean up your code… … and, for example, you can make sure that it obeys the usual C#…

Time to wrap up our Hack’n’slash tutorial and finish our skills system! — ⬅️ Tutorial #23: Adding some skills and powers! 1/2 | TOC | Tutorial #25: Final notes & sum-up ➡️ Alright, we are nearing the end of this hack’n’slash tutorial! We’ve seen a lot of things, implemented several RPG-related systems and looked at plenty of cool optimisation tricks. …

Let’s see how to do in-game screenshots to immortalise you wild adventures! — These past few years, there’s been quite a lot of big video games that offered us crazy good stories, incredible graphics and somewhat strange but fun features. Among those unexpected additions, the photo mode seems to be a pretty popular one. For example, although Marvel’s Spider-Man and Shadow of Mordor…

Let’s continue our Hack’n’slash and grant our hero some special skills! — ⬅️ Tutorial #22: Improving our player statistics | TOC | Tutorial #24: Adding some skills and powers! 2/2 ➡️ In the previous episode, we worked on our hero’s base statistics, and how to derive a few interesting variables from them. This is a good way to have the power of…

Let’s see how to use noises for procedural generation! — For lots of my projects, especially the video games I often work on, I need to create somewhat random but still credible scenery. And because I’m lazy and I’m a fan of exploration games like Minecraft or Valheim, I always eventually revert to creating procedurally generated level. ❓ What is procedural generation? In a nutshell…

Time to step up your game from crude debugging… — When you’re programming, you’ll have bugs. It’s not because you’re a bad developer, or because you don’t know enough to code; it’s just a natural step for any creative process — there will be hiccups along the way. …