C# – Doers of Stuff.org

Commentary, GameDevHQ, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingFebruary 6, 2025February 6, 2025

Kibbles, Bits and Pro-Tips

…or, the Importance of Community It’s pretty easy to sing the praises of GameDevHQ content. You don’t even need to take my word for it. Between the courses released onContinue readingKibbles, Bits and Pro-Tips

Commentary, GameDevHQ, HowTo, Software Development, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025

Say it With Data

A good friend and fellow programmer once accused me of trying to replace all my code with just data. He told me it just wasn’t right to use dynamic dataContinue readingSay it With Data

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Software Development, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingFebruary 2, 2025February 2, 2025

The Objects of My Factory

My refactoring continues. My Enemy.cs class hierarchy is not yet complete, but enough for me to dig into refactoring the SpawnManager.cs class. It is implemented like any other game object,Continue readingThe Objects of My Factory

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Software Development, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingJanuary 30, 2025January 30, 2025

Factor and Refactor Went out on a Boat…

…Factor fell off, who was left? Actually, the original joke involved Pete and Re-Pete. You can guess how the punchline went. Sometimes, re-factoring our code can feel like the sameContinue readingFactor and Refactor Went out on a Boat…

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Software Development, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingJanuary 12, 2025January 12, 2025

Sour Power

Yea, I know, that’s not really a thing, but it rhymes. And the next thing we are going to create is basically a “negative” power-up so it’s kinda descriptive. ItContinue readingSour Power

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingDecember 1, 2024December 27, 2024

Shake well before use…

Today’s activity turned out to be really, really easy which is good because I was kinda dreading it. The feature to add was a subtle camera shake whenever our playerContinue readingShake well before use…

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingNovember 30, 2024November 30, 2024

Super Power Up!

We are creating another new power up for our game, but this one is to be a bit different. It needs to be a new kind of weapon, but itContinue readingSuper Power Up!

Commentary, HowTo, Software DevelopmentNovember 5, 2024November 5, 2024

GitHub Pages

GitHub is more than just a source code repository and hosting system. It has become an entire ecosystem offering a collection of interconnected services. The source code repository is theContinue readingGitHub Pages

GameDevHQ, HowTo, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingAugust 29, 2024August 29, 2024

How to Build and Test your Unity Game

Unity, being an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) pretty much makes building your final product mostly point-n-clicky. In its simplest form, select from the top menu, File -> Build Settings andContinue readingHow to Build and Test your Unity Game

GameDevHQ, Star Shooter Pro, TrainingApril 10, 2024April 11, 2024

“Lasers”

Although we have nothing to shoot at yet, it’s time to create our lasers. We will learn several new things about game object creation. Top of the list is theContinue reading“Lasers”