From the Codeface, a Bug Fixing Story
It was March, 2009, and I was working on a high profile multi platform psychological horror game. We were “in QA”, Milestone 12, and my code was holding up well. I had been at 0-bugs for most of the...
View ArticleType Names Matter
Names matter. Some 10 years ago or so, I wrote an article for a blog on using typedef when working with templated C++ types, such as the STL containers. You can read the original article (Using...
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Overflowing your Comfort Zone
I love C++. I’m a big fan of it’s expressiveness. I think carefully constructed abstractions can be enormously powerful, and that C++ gives you the tools to construct those abstractions efficiently....
View ArticleWriting Code To Write Code
So, as I mentioned in an earlier post, there is this tool I like called MetalScroll, which includes some basic syntax colorising of C/C++/C#, but not Unreal Script. Since I’m now working with Unreal...
View ArticleFrom the Codeface
Last week I was asked the following question. This is not unusual, but it being a real live game programming question, I thought perhaps, just perhaps, the answer might be of interest to more than just...
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The Making Of Pirate Pennywise
Pirate Pennywise is a simple browser hosted game (tested in: Safari, Firefox, Chrome) that I made in my spare time. It is a personal side project, that has taken approximately 3 months (of occasional...
View ArticleIntroducing Flexible Array Members
The C99 standard officially introduced flexible array members. You may also know them as Unsized Arrays. They are a useful tool for any game programmer working in C or C++, who must take care of memory...
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Syd Sym Post-mortem
Today is the last day of my Apple Developer account being active. I took the decision a month ago not to renew, so depending on the specific timings of this blog post, and the account expiring, you may...
View ArticleThree Tools I Love (And So Should You)
This week I have written a short post to share with you some tools that I use daily, but that are perhaps are less well known than they deserve to be: MetalScroll, Beyond Compare & Code...
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Water Off A Duck’s Back
Critics, eh? Where would the games industry be without them? Well, that might be a good topic for a rant, but what I want to waffle on about today is how we as developers deal with criticism. It’s a...
View ArticleSo You Wanna Be a Senior?
So you’ve been in the industry a few years, maybe even shipped a few games, and you’re thinking: It’s about time I got a promotion. Or maybe you’ve seen a job ad, and they’re looking for a senior in...
View ArticleCheck Yourself
The detection and handling of errors and unexpected conditions during game development can be a surprisingly complicated and controversial topic. In this post I hope to help programmers understand the...
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