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Another great devlog thread on TIGSOURCE is Leilani's Island by Craig Forrester, it's a treasure trove of 2D platformer development: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=46…

It's unlikely for a small indie to roll a mobile game engine But if you are talking about companies with millions of dollars of income from gacha games like Hearthstone, most of th…

People Make Games made a video about this Infiniminer/Minecraft story and they interviewed Zach Barth. When Microsoft was reviewing the 2.5B Minecraft deal, Zach was working for Mi…

And implementing Sign in with Apple in Unity is one of the worst experience in my career that I dedicated a blog post talking about: - Native Sign in with Apple button not working …

Sometimes they just force you to implement feature for them, like “Sign in with Apple” > We’ve updated the App Store Review Guidelines to provide criteria for when apps are require…

Working on games with Unity for nearly a decade, the standard approach is to defer upgrading Unity as long as possible. Generally we stay on the old LTS (Long-term support) version…

There's another episode from Gaming Historian specifically for Tengen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLA_d9q6ySs It talks about how Atari abuses the copyright system to gain acce…

You are forced to use IL2CPP on mobile since the Google/Apple mandated ARM64 build is not available through Mono. (Mono itself does support ARM64, just Unity doesn't bother to port…

This is worse than I could possibly imagine. Did your studio at least get credited for the work on timeline tools?

The paid support is not cheap and mostly useless, at least in Asia region. We still need to go through normal bug report system, create reproduction steps for them, and get denied …

Part of it is also due to Unity3D sticked with the ancient stop-the-world mono GC for a very long time and discuraging developers from doing allocation in official talks.

I think it's just a matter of different industries having different situations.In game industry performance is a real business advantage thus it’s a goal. On consoles, every game d…

Quoted from Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers chapter 20: Let me set the record straight: The whole mysticism around the monad is the result of a misunderstanding…

https://twitter.com/anticheatpd/status/1412024189561851904?s... There are cheats doing CV on video stream and they work on consoles. I guess they would also work on cloud gaming se…

Reminds me of the great video from Nick Robinson talking about Ubisoft pulled Driver: San Francisco from all digital storefronts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkxzQDo0ng

Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan are mostly around the Hsinchu area. They paid a premium to truck water from other areas and the government limited agricultural activities in …

I think in the GTAV case, they kind of dropped the ball by not doing profiling when players complained. The exact same thing happened to our game as well, it was also a Json deseri…

There is a game about turning the universe into paper clips: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ It has one of the most beautiful endings in my opinion

He kept a very detailed devblog on TIGSource, documenting all the aspects of making the game including sound, modeling and shader programming. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.ph…

There are a lot of pro-CCP and pro-reunification organizations in Taiwan. Such as Patriot Alliance Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Alliance_Association and Chines…

Highly recommend Functional Programming in C#: https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-c-sh... If you want to learn how to do some functional in C#. If you just nee…

This game reminds me of Infinifactory by Zachtronics https://store.steampowered.com/app/300570/Infinifactory/