Hot reloading: polymorphism
Hot reloading has many problems to solve, but its most fundamental is correcting pointers to avoid the dreaded SEGFAULT. In this deep dive: vptrs, compiler design, and deducing object memory layouts.
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Item Anvil
A flexible, accessible RPG-style item ecosystem, published on GitHub and the Unity Asset Store.
That Potato Game
A humorous, chaotic puzzler about a lumpy potato rolling around a magical house, built over the course of 2 semesters.
Black White Red
A first-person action 5v5 PvP FPS, similar to Capture the Flag. Players move faster when invading enemy territory, and become stronger in combat when defending.
Flocking and Context Maps
An AI that flocks, explores its environment, and avoids collisions with static and dynamic objects.
Introduction to Context Maps
An AI that explores its environment while avoiding collisions with static obstacles and other agents.
Platformer analysis: Generating graphs for pathfinding
Overview To create this algorithm, I first looked at how NavMeshes work. We can’t add all possible points on the mesh, since those are effectively infinite, so instead we simplify polygons into single nodes, and connect those that have a common edge. After processing this with our pathfinder, we can interpolate the details. Simplifying this … Read more
Devlog: Dialogue system in Unity
Whether in games or more traditional media, it’s hard to tell a story without any verbal or written interaction. Oxford Languages defines a conversation as “a talk […] between two or more people.” To decompose this into something more technical: A conversation is a sequence of exchanged words between two or more participants. Unity provides … Read more
Devlog: Physics-based character controller
Like many systems, the systems by which a player moves have facets and layers of complexity, built on a layer of physics such as gravity and collision response. For the most basic implementation, the collision response facet is matched by a movement facet that turns input directly into in-world horizontal motion, after scaling by some … Read more