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Hold Shift to Sprint

Balancing fitness and work can be tough. New way at looking at this problem yielded a solution fitting for a game developer.

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Unity Snow Shader

I wrote my first Unity Shader which was inspired by a game I played.

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"Friendly" Ducky

Frustrated with a problem I was trying to solve got fixed because I just asked my friend for help.

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If It Ain't Broke, Make It Perfect

Not going by the old saying of “if it ain't broke don't fix it” helped set a record in my class and changed my mind towards something.

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SFX Speak a Thousand Words

My impatience to experiment with something new taught me a lesson for making a game in a game jam and showed me what actually makes a game “juicy”.

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Programmer's Instinct

Knowing the answer, I still did not fix a bug and was looking around in different areas or a solution. I was looking in the wrong place for almost 48 hours.

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Leave no Call Stack Unturned

I assumed a problem would in a certain place and wasn’t able to solve it. If it was not for my lab specialist i would have never found the problem.

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Size Doesn't Matter

My most ambitious project ended up in the recycling bin because of an amateur mistake.

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Copy-Paste: Almost a Boon to All

Missing a semicolon is infuriating for every programmer, but I messed up with the semicolon in a different way. My small mistake had me staring at the screen for more than an hour.

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Boredom Learning

In my Programming 1 class, sitting bored, I learnt the most important programming skills. And I didn’t even realize it.

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