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Create Your First Mod in Cities: Skylines

Create Your First Mod in Cities: Skylines

In the recent days I was playing a popular city builder simulation game Cities: Skylines and I spent a lot of time on it. This is a game that not only great by itself, but also has a large community on the steam workshop with hundreds of thousands of mod

Use Semantic UI in create-react-app

Semantic UI a powerful UI framework for front-end development, and few years ago it launched a React integration: Semantic UI React. However it does not have any instructions for installing on apps bootstrapped with create-react-app. This blog will be a very short one -- it includes the recipe I used

Programming in Unity: Use Singleton Pattern

I believe at lease some of you have met this situation (or similar) while developing your own games in Unity: There is a GameManager.cs script attached to a gameObject(probably named as "GameManager" as well): public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour { private const float StartingTime = 60f; private int _time; ... // some other

Game AI Basics - Patrolling

Patrolling is the most commonly used movement type while designing enemy AI, it is simple and makes your enemies looks "smarter" than just standing still, also it is easy to implement. A simple solution - static waypoints Waypoints seems to be the most straight forward solution to come up with,

Network Programming: Blocking & Non-blocking, Synchronous & Asynchronous

This could be one of the concepts that will easily get confused, especially for those ones just get started on network programming. The Major Difference First thing: blocking operation does NOT equal to synchronous, also non-blocking operation does NOT equal to asynchronous. Actually, they don't have direct relevant with each

Create a loading scene with a "real" loading bar in Unity

Create a loading scene with a "real" loading bar in Unity

Transition between scenes in Unity is easy, but how to create an intermediate "loading" scene with a loading bar which displays the current progress? In this article I will talk about how to create a loading bar which actually shows loaded percentage for the upcoming scene. (Cover Photo Credit: sgprolab)

Deploy git to your Ghost blog

Deploy git to your Ghost blog

It's been a long time ago since I set up my blog and post the very first article. After coming back to MSU from Hong Kong I was pretty busy in the following spring semester since there are a lot of stuff going on (credit transfer, exams, endless assignments..etc)