Let’s setup a simple 2D movement scheme for our little ship! — With the ever-growing diversity of gamepads, and mobile screens, and VR controllers, it looks like player inputs aren’t as easy as they used to be. Long gone are the days where you had a simple joystick to change the course of your paddle in Pong! And yet: there are some…

Let’s get our objects talking to each other! — It is true that a very simplistic game could potentially rely on just a single script, somewhere on a grand “manager” object. …

Make it work, make it good, make it fast… make it faster? — This past decade, the video game industry has offered us amazing examples of how creative minds can push the boundary and bypass limitations. From the AAA studios that kept on pursuing more photorealistic graphics, to indie devs who cleverly thought outside the box to produce original and interesting visuals despite…

So — how many of those amazing tricks do you already use? — After years of developing little games and prototypes with Unity, I’ve seen the engine evolve in various ways, and progressively add quite the number of features. Because Unity is a generalist engine, each new release can of course offer features in many domains —from graphics to tooling, sounds, optimisation, or…

Pick the right data structure to get the most out of your algorithms! — When you work with a lot of data, oftentimes, choosing the right data representation can be crucial in reducing the processing time. …

Let’s create a basic move AI for a little RTS-like game! — Although there are many types of games, some systems are common to many of them. Navigation is a good example of this globally shared logic: be it for a side-scroller roguelike with endless waves of skeletons coming to your hero, or a huge MMORPG with escort quests, or a strategy…

Let’s discuss how we can have a dev-friendly environment-dependent compilation process in C#! — Let’s say you’re working on a big project with lots of other devs, and you have a professional delivery system with tests, staging and releases. All of these “versions” of your product probably run in different environments, with their own set of env variables and symbols — for example, you…

Let’s make a simple grid graph-based shader for a URP project! — Do you want to create your own adaptive procedural grid material to suit all your level design fantasies? Do you want to get a gentle introduction to Unity’s user-friendly Shader Graph tool? Do you want to discover how we can make easy-to-tweak patterns using just maths?

Let’s see some tricks to drawing tables in your terminal! — Whenever you want to display data, tables are one of the go-to solutions. They may not be very elegant, they may not have flashy colours like pie charts and histograms, but they are an effective way to show a massive amount of data in a condensed and objective way. This…