Unity/Jumbo builds are a way of speeding up C/C++ compilation by compiling multiple c/cpp files as a single object file. Speed improvements can come from not having to re-parse and compile shared headers. Even in projects that use pre-compiled headers, Continue Reading
I’ve recently found the need for a custom deleter function attached to smart pointers in C++ and I found there are a number of different ways to implement this. I’ll touch on the advantages/disadvantages of the different ways to use Continue Reading
Had a similar problem to Jeroen Swart to do with Cookies in Windows Phone as he mentioned in his blog post here. Basically identical C# code to make a HttpWebRequest with a few cookies would work in a simple desktop Continue Reading
Came across a very weird problem today that has occurred on my application Steam Live which I’ve never come across before… On a certain Steam Profile I’d get a crash with the following message: “Layout cycle detected. Layout could not Continue Reading
The Problem: When the phone is in landscape mode, the rendered area isn’t rotated on screen! As you can see, the image on the right is when it is in portrait mode, the one below is when in landscape. The problem Continue Reading
After finishing my course at Bournemouth University, I wanted to invest my free time into improving my programming and game development skills. I decided that since majority of my course at University had focused on the Unreal Development Kit, it Continue Reading
For my final year project at University I had decided that I would be developing a Windows 8 application, something I, at the time had no experience in. Over the 2013 Christmas break I decided I would create a Windows Continue Reading
For an assignment at university, we were required to form a group and begin the development of a game, based on a clients brief. Upon assigning the programming roles to myself and another member of the team, we worked extensively Continue Reading
Spaceman & Slime is a game I created for one of my assignments at Bournemouth University. The game is a re-skinned version of the classic, tactical board game Hounds and Hares built using C# and XNA for the Windows Phone Continue Reading
After finishing my A Levels and was about to begin studying Games Technology at Bournemouth University I knew I would have to start learning a completely new programming langauge to Visual Basic: C++. I’d heard a lot about C++ and Continue Reading