In this video we’ll go over a variety of different collections available to us as game developers and I’ll show practical examples of how you can use each of them.

We’ll go over arrays and jump right into queues, stacks, dictionaries, lists, hashsets and more. I’ll give some real world game development examples where I’ve used them in VR & MMO games and give you a few ways you can use them in your own projects to simplify things, improve performance, and clean code 🙂

Learn how to use NSubstitute with your Unity games to mock monobehaviors. It’ll make unit testing your unity code properly much easier. If you’ve never written a unit test before, I’ll take you all the way through the process. Show why mocks are important and exactly how to set them up in a real project.

The humble object pattern makes unit testing easy in Unity, but it also encourages some other SOLID principles. While it’s not in the game programming patterns book, it is a great pattern for everyone to know how to use that I wanted to include in this series 🙂

I’m doing a full series based on the book ‘game programming patterns’.  In this video we’ll discuss the Observer pattern using an achievement system as an example.

Inspired by Robert’s great book on Game Programming Patterns – https://amzn.to/2Ohg01Z

Learn how to use Mathf.Lerp, Vector3.Lerp, Quaternion.Lerp, & more. These simple built in methods allow you to move objects from one position to another, scale values between ranges, or slowly turn to face directions. No developer should be without them!

Static events can simplify and help decouple your code. You can use them to register once and handle callbacks for a bunch of objects (instead of registering for each one).

Health bars are important in many game types. Luckily, they’re easy to add to your Unity game! In part 2 of the health bar series, I’ll show you how to create screen space health bars that stay a consistent size and always look flat to the player. We’ll do it with some simple events and have our system automatically generate health bars for any new monsters that need one 🙂

Health bars are important in many game types. Luckily, they’re easy to add to your Unity game! I’ll show you how to get them hooked up with a clean simple solution using worldspace UI canvas and a simple filled sprite + a little code..

Extension methods can make your code dramatically easier to read and understand, all while removing unnecessary duplication. Learn how to create your own along with a few very useful examples of extension methods I use every day.