Testing is an integral part of a software development life cycle. It helps to make your code robust and maintainable whilst ensuring that unavoidable refactoring doesn’t break the application. But as a small game studio or a lonely indie dev you might never get much needed time and resources to…

Creating and releasing a game is already a big achievement! But without strong media support it will most likely stay unnoticed to the masses. One of the easiest and cheapest ways to get some attention is to engage with the existing group of users and let them invite new ones…

One of the competitive advantages of using a game engine is in-built support for multiple platforms. “Write once, run anywhere” — a phrase, usually associated with Java-based applications, is indeed applicable for Unity as well. In this tutorial I’ll show you how easy, but not exactly straightforward it is to…

Wordle has become a phenomenal game. Many developers, me included, are trying to get that piece of hype launching clones, from a complete copy to something truly unique. In this tutorial I will show you how to create your own version of a “classic Wordle” with 6 lines, 5 letter…

Now to something completely different. Usually my articles are about programming and software development topics but this time I decided to share a personal story. During the difficult pandemic time I was still able to relocate to Singapore, my long awaited destination . Jeez, that wasn’t easy! If you heard…

Originally created for Smaato Development Blog The creation of RESTful services is one of the most common problems modern developers are tasked with. Obviously, any publicly-open service should also be secured and managed properly. Recently we at Smaato had exactly this sort of problem to solve and this article is…

Quite often developers choose to “ignore” the fact that there are two screen orientations available on the market — Portrait and Landscape, adding support for only one of them. Obviously, by doing that a significant share of devices is left out. In this tutorial I will show you how to…

As most of the Unity game developers I was thrilled seeing the launch of the Game Growth program on 13th October. If for some reasons you haven’t heard of it yet — check this Unity blog post. Without any delays I jumped into the topic and applied to the program…

If you have ever worked on any kind of games with levels (think of Candy Crush) then you know that manual level creation might take an enormous amount of development time. Eventually, you will want to ease this process and create an algorithm to do the job for you. After…