Here’s a quick recap of Apple’s State of the Union at WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference 2021). You can find the full video here. XCode Build

Sprites are a vital part of working on a game in Unity. Part of that is how do you go about slicing a sprite that contains multiple images within it. I’m going to spend some time going through a basic example of how to split a sprite and hook it…

Build Cloud-native Applications That Run Anywhere — ICYMI (In case you missed it); two weeks ago was Microsoft’s Build event! The yearly event is a chance for developers to learn new things that are going on in technology. …

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that is the cornerstone of modern software development. While OOP isn’t the only programming paradigm that exists, I would argue it is the most important to have a firm foundation of, and when used correctly, can lead to stronger and more robust…

There is something that you realize really quickly when you start programming games, and it’s that materials are coded differently than anything else. …

When programming in Javascript there are times when you might want to know if there were any parameters passed through the URL. In case you aren’t familiar with URL parameters, they are the arguments set after the base URL and the ‘?’. For example let’s look at the below example: …

You often forget that APIs exist for most of the platforms you use. While some companies lock down their APIs to only provide very limited information, DEV.to goes the extra mile to provide an extremely robust API. Let’s go over what is available! Link to Project: https://www.josephamaurer.com/Projects/DevAPI/RecentDevPosts.html Link to…

There are times when you need to take full advantage of every ounce of performance possible to make your dream game a reality. Enter the Job System in Unity. It allows the developer to write multithreaded code that can still interact with the rest of Unity. What is multithreading? Multithreading allows the program…

Writing clean and maintainable code is pivotal to any production project. And yet even the most functional code is frowned upon if it doesn’t follow the coding standards that a company sets. A good engineer knows that any big changes need to go through a code review before being merged…