Passion projects are HARD to finish.

No matter what you do: writing books, blogging, music, visual arts, you name it. It’s oh so easier to gravitate towards a path of least resistance. “We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path...

In this post, I wanted to talk about automated testing. It’s a recurrent issue that, when working on a game, you implement some functionality that breaks something you did before.

Some of you already know that I’ve strong roots in Agile practices. One of them is TDD, and up until now, I haven’t been able to do TDD in video games in a productive way.

The hot reload functionality that I was so eagerly desiring to implement was a pain to get working using C++ classes, so I went full 1979 with it and split the logic from the data model, this provided me with some insight on how to manage the memory, and I’m trying out a memory management model that so far is looking nice.

Before delving into what I have to say, I want to give you some background.

Many people I talk to on a daily basis looks at me like a freak when I say that I don’t like Unity. This is not just an ‘I wanna be cool’ thing, it’s actually a pragmatic...

I’ve been struggling with studying my whole life. I’ve never been able to sit down and do all that is needed for a test, or even when programming for myself. Now, after years and years of learning bits from here and there I feel like I have some solid...