Did you know: Medium can silently remove you from the partnership program, erasing your profits in the process

I’ve just finished playing a Rocket League match, but this wasn’t the first time, this happens often: The time is 3:00 or such, the score is 2:2. The dude gives me a goal, so now it’s 3:2 for him, at 3:00. He says “FF” in chat, meaning “forfeit”, suggesting I should do…

When I’ve seen people complaining about the terrain system, there were two basic kind of posts: gamedev (and unity) professionals, or at least semi-professionals, who were pretty comprehensively listing reasons why the terrain system is bad to the point of embarassing. They used to mention mainly the number of drawcalls…

All three previous parts were (sometimes somewhat wordy) descriptions of the easy stuff, basically just looking around all the default options and seeing how they perform and why, to have some kind of baseline. The real adventure starts now, as well as the real “journaling” of this adventure, since from…

We are slowly getting to the actual interesting parts, I promise! So, last time, I verified that adding trees kills the performance, no matter what. The LODs makes it …survivable, but still. This time, I decided to properly look into why that’s happening. Let’s start at the obvious place, profiler. …

I will try to keep this one short, since it was mostly a day full of repeating the same thing several times with different numbers, plus I would like to catch these blogs/articles/call them what you want, to the point at which I am currently, so I can truly write…

So this one day, I had a crazy idea: “I want to create a large outdoor area in Unity.” As in, really large. I mean it. 30x30 km square of, specifically, mountains and coniferous forests of Northern Canada. Why? Not important right now. What’s important is the road full of…

I believe (despite trying to convince myself otherwise for several years) that the main responsibility of parents is to make their children forgive them for the parents forcing them to exist (be born) without the children’s consent. What do I mean? Existence is inherently unpleasant, painful, sorrowful, sad, depressing, and…

How to order action/feature items in your application/game’s linear (up/down, or left/right, in any case, “next item/previous item”) menus? Example: A title menu of the game. Question: What is the priority order of the actions player can take from the main menu? Answer: Several options: 0. Freshly installed and started game: “Settings”…