theInsomniacGameMaker’s 2 Bytes
Back In My Day We Used to Copy Code from Google
What does AI mean for Game Development? Is the hype real?
A Jack of All Trades is a Master of None, but Oftentimes Better than a Master of One
My experience exploring new technologies and why you should too.
Upgrading the Screwdriver to an Electric Drill
Things evolve very quickly these days, our tools have to keep up with it!
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.
Set it and Don't Forget it
My experience implementing a critical feature in a game with a huge fan base.
Butcher, Axe and the Butter
I was stuck with a baffling problem. Until I got the ax, I meant the Android Debug Bridge.
Bounces Bits Off Of My Teammate
Two minds are greater than one, and two optimized solutions are greater than one lack luster solution.
"Friendly" Ducky
Frustrated with a problem I was trying to solve got fixed because I just asked my friend for help.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Multitasking Only Exists in the Task Manager
Complicating an easy task made me archive one of the simplest projects I had started. My workflow changed the outcome of my project.
Size Doesn't Matter
My most ambitious project ended up in the recycling bin because of an amateur mistake.
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.
Boredom Learning
In my Programming 1 class, sitting bored, I learnt the most important programming skills. And I didn’t even realize it.