Almost every project I was working on had a convoluted UI system design. Most platforms like iOS or Android give a decent framework to start with. This puts developers into boundaries and gives guidelines. Not so much so in game dev, with great flexibility come nightmare design decisions. Part of…

We are about to enter the creator’s economy. We all saw travel bloggers, TikTok influences, or people who simply film their day-to-day life and are able to make a living from it. And it’s only a beginning of the new world in which most people provide products and services as…

I got into development because it was fun. Only later, I had realized that more often than not, software development is a headache. Modern software practices focus on delivering functionality at all costs, sometimes with compromises to computational and cognitive complexity. …

Let’s talk about the interviewing process. Through my career, I’ve been on both sides of the table. Some of the following “mistakes” I made myself, others were collected through many interviews as a potential contractor/employee. Ask questions about API of the Engine/Framework — We are not testing the memory of…

I was surfing the web and found this wonderful ShaderToy Diamond. I’d immediately wanted to create something for conventional meshes and not analytical one. This “cheap” solution is still a bit heavy, up to 7 cubemap samples per pixel and yet it should be faster than raymarching/raytracing considering that we…

The short answer — in case of thermal throttling. I’ll be focusing on mobile devices in this article. Most of the mobile devices can work not so long on maximum capacity before they hit throttling. After throttling, CPU & GPU clock speed can be cut in half to prevent device…

Image Based Lighting used in movies and video games for ages. In most engines, it’s available by default in form of Light & Reflection Probes. IBL gives us the ability to imitate complex lighting setup and reflection in the cost of couple texture samples. In fact, using Light Maps is…

Well, not in all cases, but you definitely need to think twice when using them in production. Event driven architecture has become extremely popular in Unity because it eases communication between components. Modern UI is probably unthinkable without events as well. …