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GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingAugust 8, 2024August 8, 2024

Creating A Cooldown System in Unity

In video games, a Cooldown system is just a fancy way of slowing things down. It allows for a touch more realism in your interactions (such as weapons reload) ratherContinue readingCreating A Cooldown System in Unity

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingAugust 7, 2024August 7, 2024

Instantiating & Destroying Game Objects in Unity

Everything in Unity is a game object. GameObject is the base class for all entities in a Unity Scene. Therefore, a good deal of our program runtime will revolve aroundContinue readingInstantiating & Destroying Game Objects in Unity

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingAugust 7, 2024August 7, 2024

Why You Need to be Writing Pseudo Code

So, there are likely two primary groups of programmers who will read an article like this. There are new programmers who don’t know any better and will likely follow theContinue readingWhy You Need to be Writing Pseudo Code

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingAugust 6, 2024August 6, 2024

Simple Player Movement in Unity

Today I started interacting with my player object. Simple left, right, up and down. The big thing about doing this was the reminder of the link between the Unity EditorContinue readingSimple Player Movement in Unity

GameDevHQ, HowTo, TrainingMarch 21, 2024March 22, 2024

Let The Quest Begin!

As recently mentioned on my other blog (Time Machine) I’m going to spend some time walking through what I’ve done so far on my GameDevHQ program. Now as a reminder,Continue readingLet The Quest Begin!

HowToMarch 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Curve Balls

Ever have one of those days where nothing you do seems to work out right; and the only thing that keeps you from spending all day on it is theContinue readingCurve Balls

Commentary, HowToFebruary 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Marking the Bench

I know it seems like I’m really milking this Bubble Sort thing. But we did just discuss three different implementations of the Bubble Sort (Algorithm and Blues, part 1, partContinue readingMarking the Bench

Commentary, HowToJanuary 27, 2024February 6, 2024

Algorithm and Blues (part 3)

Previously, in our hit series, “Algorithm and Blues” (part 1) and (part 2), our villain, Dr. Evil Bubblesort made his appearance. Not once, but twice. Both times being neatly stuffedContinue readingAlgorithm and Blues (part 3)

Commentary, HowToJanuary 26, 2024February 6, 2024

Algorithm and Blues (part 2)

I mentioned recently I faced the infamous Bubble Sort in an interview and did less than stellar. Excuse mongering aside, I decided I should look into it and discussed itContinue readingAlgorithm and Blues (part 2)

Commentary, HowToJanuary 25, 2024February 6, 2024

Algorithm and Blues

I’m not really an algorithms kinda guy. To be honest, they have always felt a bit like brain teasers and other such puzzles which I’ve never had any use for.Continue readingAlgorithm and Blues