Lessons learnt from GitLab’s “How to Manage a Remote Team” online course. Why Remote Work? It is possible to hire and work from all over the world. Workers gain the ability to work flexible hours. And flexibility is possible in times of crisis. Remote Working Styles Hybrid-Remote The workers who alternate between home and office. Digital Nomad Workers who…

A while ago, I came across AI Dungeon, a choose-your-own-story (CYOS) game that used AI to create a story. The user can say, do, see or add to the story. It seemed revolutionary. …

The order of execution of event functions is as follows: _Init() _Notification() _EnterTree() _Ready() _Input() _UnhandledInput() _UnhandledKeyInput() _PhysicsProcess() _Draw() _Process() _ExitTree() If you're wondering why the above functions are capitalized in that manner, that’s how they appear when using C#. The ones in italics are those which I was not able to override. I had to dig unnecessarily deep to find this information, so hopefully, this helps someone else.

It was 2007, and the server of my favourite Role Playing space sim had been taken down. The server host couldn’t keep working a second job to bear the hardware, internet and electricity costs. I needed a new world to explore, and some friends introduced me to World of Warcraft…

A beginner tutorial to get the reference of a Node in the scene. — It is a two-step process: get the NodePath of the Node and then cast the NodePath into the required type, which could be a Sprite, Node, RigidBody etc. Fetching the NodePath This can be done by creating an editor-exposed variable (Unity Engine equivalent of SerializeField) and dragging the Node to the exposed property…

Quick Charging Breakdown (TL;DR) Left Bay Area with 245 miles. Stopped to charge in Merced, CA and topped up to 250 miles. Reached Yosemite West (Airbnb) with 110 miles remaining. Slow charged (Level 1) on and off during the 2 day stay. Left Yosemite West with 160 miles. Charged (Level 2) in Rush Creek…

In 2019, I gave a talk at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki and was surprised to see that they had reserved a complete track for blockchain games. It puzzled me that game developers were using a complicated decentralised storage solution to give the players an illusion of uniqueness and ownership. After…

The usage of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to shape the experience of a player or a group of players is now integrating well in modern games. …

I created a web-server using Golang that ran machine learning algorithms for a video game. I was aware that the algorithms will take a large number of resources as the player data increases but I saw very large and inconsistent memory spikes that could use up to 4 to 6…