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Orbital Mechanics

This is a deep dive into the fascinating topic of orbital mechanics: from the implementation of gravity simulators, to the…
PCA for Programmers

In today’s world, data is everywhere—and often, it’s overwhelming. Datasets can have hundreds or even thousands of features, many of…
Minecraft Plugin Development

This article will teach you how to develop and deploy a Minecraft plugin for a Paper server, using the Bukkit…
Unity 4D #4: Creating 4D Objects

This article will explain how to create four dimensional objects, in a format compatible with the Unity4D extension. You can…
Unity 4D #3: Rendering 4D Objects

This article will explain how to render 4D objects in Unity, using three separate technique: orthographic projection, perspective projection and…
Unity 4D #2: Extending Unity to 4D

This article will show how to extend Unity to support four-dimensional geometry. This is the second article in a series…

The World Generation of Minecraft

This is a companion article to the documentary about the world generation of Minecraft, which you can see below. This…
Inverse Kinematics in 3D

This tutorial will teach you how to master inverse kinematics in 3D: the technique that solves the problem of moving…
The incredibly challenging task of sorting colours

Let’s start with something trivial: sorting numbers. Regardless of the algorithm you’ll use, real numbers are naturally ordered. Mathematically speaking, they have a total order, in…

Topographical Maps in Unity: Edge Detection

This tutorial will teach you how to recreate a very popular effect in games: topographical maps. This is a two-part…
A Journey Into Journey’s Sand Shader

This is the first part of the online series inspired by the sand rendering of Journey. Join me in this…
$CD-ROM Shader: Diffraction Grating – Part 2$

CD-ROM Shader: Diffraction Grating – Part 2

This post completes the series on how to create a shader for CD-ROMs. You can find the complete series here:…

Unity 4D #2: Extending Unity to 4D

This article will show how to extend Unity to support four-dimensional geometry. This is the second article in a series…
Nested Coroutines in Unity

This tutorial shows how to make the most out of coroutines in Unity.
A practical tutorial to hack (and protect) Unity games

If there’s a term which is often misunderstood, that’s for sure hacking. When it refers to softwares, it usually gets a negative connotation which…

Delegates, Lambda Expressions & Closures in C#

If you are familiar with programming, you might have heard of a specific paradigm called functional programming. Most modern languages, such…
Iterators in C#: yield, IEnumerable & IEnumerator

Iterating over lists in C# is often done using for loops. This tutorial shows how the foreach construct can be coupled with the yield statement…
Enum, Flags and bitwise operators

If you’re a game developer chances are you’re familiar with the need to describe different variations of an attribute. Whether it’s…

Orbital Mechanics

This is a deep dive into the fascinating topic of orbital mechanics: from the implementation of gravity simulators, to the…
The Mathematics of the Kalman Filter

This is the second part of the series dedicated to one of the most popular sensor de-noising technique: Kalman filters.…
The Mathematics of Catenary

Many modern games feature hanging wires, cables and chains; this series of tutorials will explore the mathematics behind their shape,…

Inverse Kinematics in 2D – Part 2

You can read the rest of this online course here: A follow-up that focuses on 3D is also available:
Inverse Kinematics for Tentacles

This post continues our journey in the depth of Inverse Kinematics. In this tutorial you will learn how to apply…
Inverse Kinematics for Robotic Arms

After a long journey about the Mathematics of Forward Kinematics and the geometrical details of gradient descent, we are ready to finally show…

How to integrate Arduino with Unity

In this tutorial you will learn how Unity and Arduino can communicate using the serial port. This tutorial requires both C#…
A Bestiary of Alternative Game Controllers

Many game developers are suspicious about alternative controllers, believing that since they can’t be easily mass produced, they are useless. Well, this…
Everything You Need to Know About LEDs

Many game developers are easily scared by electronics. Even if Arduino has shifted most of the workload on its software side, there are…