Note: this article assumes that the reader knows how to use Svelto.ECS and Svelto.Tasks although the findings are interesting regardless. Introduction New exciting features are coming to Svelto.ECS and Svelto.Tasks libraries. As I am currently focused on optimizing Robocraft for Xbox One, I added several functionalities that can help makingRead More →
Note: this is an on-going article and is updated with the new features introduced over the time. In this article I will introduce a better way to run coroutines using the Svelto.Tasks TaskRunner. I will also show how to run coroutine between threads, easily and safely. You can finally exploitRead More →
Note: this article is now outdated as Svelto.ECS 2.0 is out. Read it to have a complete picture on the concepts, but the most up to date information can be found now here. Note: in this article you will meet the term Node which has been superseded by the term EntityRead More →
Entity Component System design to achieve true Inversion of Flow ControlRead More →
In this article, I will explain the previously introduced Inversion of Flow control, then I will illustrate how to apply it in OOP and how this can be best achieved using the Entity Component System design. While ECS design apparently seems to have nothing to do with Inversion Of Control,Read More →
This post can be considered partially outdated as my mind changed quite a bit since when I originally wrote it. First of all, I would never suggest to write a game launcher in Unity now. Use instead .net or the latest version of mono with xamarin. Mono library embedded with Unity 4 is tooRead More →
Unity 3D is a well designed tool, I can say that. It is clearly less painful to use than UDK, no matter what its limitations are. However, as I keep on saying, the c# framework is still full of bad design choices, probably unfortunate inheritances from unity script (why don’tRead More →
recently I needed to compress a binary stream that was getting to big to be serialized over internet. I could not find any way to compress files easily, so eventually I used a 3rd party library that works very well in Unity3D (web player included): SharpZipLib I suppose the followingRead More →
Note: this article explains the use of Svelto.IoC container in more detail. However, I deprecated it a long time ago, so read this article for knowledge, but know that I now don’t recommend using an IoC container in any project. In my previous article, I briefly introduced the problems relatedRead More →
Unity is a good game development tool and honestly, I like most of its features. However, the programming framework is awkward to use on big projects where code maintainability is of fundamental importance. As you may have guessed, the following considerations in this article do not apply to simple projectsRead More →