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Unity ECS

Dear Unity DOTS Readers

I'm coming back to catch up with current version of DOTS. And I'm going to write on this blog as my tool for self learning like I used to do years ago.

Unity

Publish Asset Store UPM package on which LTS version?

As a package publisher, supporting lowest possible version is ideal for covering your user bases and therefore increase revenue. But in exchange, using version too low will results in many difficult problems.

Unity

UnityEvent Serialization Research

I always forget what is the criteria so UnityEvent could target on the dropdown. By writing this article I could come back and read instead of trial-and-error!

Art / Audio

34-key Kalimba music theory analysis

Seeds Kalimba "Pisces" is a pretty interesting 34-key Kalimba! I love when a brand try to pioneer something and there are not much information anywhere else, I wanted to be at the frontier and experiment.

Technology

"Tibetan Breaking" Specification

Tibetan Breaking is a convention to encode line breaking opportunity inside the string data itself, using a Tibetan interpunct ⟨་⟩ character, called ཙེག་ (tsek).

Technology

Dumb i18n site

I don't know how to call this sort of internationalization scheme on a website so I coined it for my own use. Explaining this gets repetitive so I made this article to link to every time I wanted to talk about it.

Unity

EventSystem raycast debugging guide

Using EventSystem along with GraphicRaycaster, PhysicsRaycaster, or Physics2DRaycaster, and something didn't hit the way you expect it to? Let's dive into the code to debug this.

Unity

Looking into Unity's async/await

async already works in Unity without any kind of plugins or coroutine wrapping the Task and pseudo-async it by checking completion every frame. But it is kind of magical. Let's try to dig into it a bit more.

Unity ECS

Game Object Conversion and SubScene

GameObject based data are not ECS compatible. It would be great if it is easy to author the data like before but instead getting ECS data at runtime so that we could work on them efficiently.

Unity ECS

Entity remapping

Most of the time you don't have any control of the values in Entity component in the chunk. It cause problem when you also bake Entity in some other components as a relationship.

Unity ECS

Memory awareness in data-oriented design (Part 1 : Overview)

When programming data-oriented you need to take this word more literally. You always think and know where is your data and how they are accessed by machine at every single step.

Unity ECS

ECS testing review : system testing VS world testing

In Unity ECS, you will have much easier time testing your game programmatically. Everything is data, and data lives in easily accessible from code World, it is as if you can "see" the game running just by looking at all the data in your code editor.

Unity

Visual Studio Code vs Rider for Unity

Visual Studio Code is almost perfect, very very few annoyances. But in this competitive scene of text editor, it is tempting to pay just to eliminate those annoyances from the tool I touch every day.

Unity

How to remodel your project for asmdef and UPM

In this article I will guide you to adopt asmdef and (internal) Unity Package Manager in your existing project. It will be harder than if you do it from the beginning, but that's why I have written this guide.

Unity ECS

Highly recommended read : dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook

Despite it's generic-sounding book name, the author almost always talks in game language. You will feel right at home reading it. I would like to convince you on a per-chapter basis what you will get.

Unity ECS

Reminders about data-oriented design

I am from time to time "lost" in the data-oriented design practice having used to OOP for so long. This is a quick blog post that maybe helpful to someone out there.

Technology

Manual word breaking in a game website

It is very likely that your game has some kind of catchphrase before drawing reader into the details of the game. In some unlucky circumstances the word breaks in a wrong place on a popular fixed-width device size.

Technology

Search Engine Optimization research for localized game website

Can we make a localized website for games which Google indexes each routed pages and shared beautifully to social networks?

Technology

Workaround for client-side Blazor localization with .resx

Blazor is strong because of WASM client side possibility. But there are problems I found trying to make localization works entirely client side.

Unity

Unity Firebase SDK behaviour the docs didn't tell you

For example there is persistence built in that let you preserve anonymous ID between app runs.

Story

Duel Otters clone analysis : Cats Carnival

This is a deep analysis of a clone of my game Duel Otters, called Cats Carnival. It's an honor to be copied THIS much.

Technology

App promotional screenshots and videos guide 2019

How many resolutions and variants you should plan for submitting to both App Store and Google Play Store?

Art / Audio

Mix and master game audio for mobile devices

There is a "bug" in my audio, specifically the snares were too hot and they are overpowering melodies. Bass disappeared. But they sounded fine on my ATH-M50 headphone.

Unity

Unity & Android App Icon in 2019

I thought Android device fragmentation was bad. Now icon fragments too. Google introduced the first new standard in Android 7.1 as rounded icon. Then just one API level later, introduces adaptive icon. What do you want now?

Story

ความในใจถึงคนเปิดร้านกาแฟทั่วไทย

พอไปญี่ปุ่น ได้โอกาสไปซื้อแผ่นเพลงจากคนแต่งเพลงที่เจอในเน็ตกับมือ ก็เลยว่าจะเอามาฟังเรื่อยๆระหว่างทำงาน ตอนนั้นแหละที่ผมค้นพบว่า ผมฟังเพลงระหว่างทำงานไม่ได้อีกต่อไป