Sometimes we want to execute code whenever we hit Play button in Unity Editor. The reason for this usually is that we want to enforce some workflow automatically such as getting specific environment information (e.g. git hash, date) and fill it in a prefab or something. We could do ...

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Some MVC like frameworks in Unity

Key Value Observing This is a simple implementation of MVC according to his own understandings

Karma Lightweight MVC framework using Zenject DI container. It is inspired from MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER PATTERN FOR UNITY3D USER INTERFACES

Marklight Looks nice. It offers XUML and external editor ...

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Understand promise vs callback The ABCs of promises

Promise nuggets More examples of promises

Why I am switching to promises A guy switches from callbacks to promises.

We have a problem with promises Promises are not so easy to use if you don't know exactly how to use them ...

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How To Build An Online Community: The Ultimate List Of Resources

CommunitySpark

How to Build a User Community

25 Ways to Build Your Community

The Art of Creating a Community

Building an Online Community: Just Add Water

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Why

• The world has become more complex
• Our brain has not changed much

Examples

• Checklists in aviation help alleviate accidents
• Checklists in construction makes the failure list very low

Benefits

• Checklists verify that the necessary minimum gets done Because sometimes the most important stuff is the simple ones.
• Checklists free ...

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One-time password is pretty common these days for any type of account that offers two-factor authentication. We can use an app to generate OTP but it would be troublesome if we lost the app or the phone. Fortunately there's a simple way to generate OTP programmatically using libraries such ...

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First of all, please remember that Singletons are generally not recommended due to various obvious disadvantages:

• Hard to reason about code
• Encourage coupling
• Potential concurrency issue

However, in game development it's super useful to have singleton for many types of global system, including but not limited to:

• Sound system ...

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Maple.js is a simple event-based multiplayer framework using Node.js

Deconstruction

• Maple provides a base class for Client and Server. Your specific game code should inherit these base classes.
• The supported functionality includes:
  • Connect/Disconnect
  • Ping server
  • Handle arbitrary message
  • Sync client server update tick on every frame
• The ...

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Osmus is a tech demo of a HTML5 multiplayer game inspired by Osmos.

Deconstruction

• Osmus uses node.js for the server and HTML5 Canvas with Javascript on the client side. The simulation code is shared between client and server.
• Regarding network, Osmus uses socket.io. Socket.io is quite stable ...

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We all need a tool to format code automatically according to project's convention. Using an IDE like Visual Studio, Xamarin or MonoDevelop, we can format code easily. However, it's not always convenient to fireup the IDE just for formatting some code, and also having a tool on the ...

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