Aug 17 2018 Why Not Just Do It

~ 2 Minute Read.

Do you some­times know a thing that could po­ten­tial­ly make you some mon­ey—on what I per­son­al­ly am still very de­pen­dent on do­ing—and that is “re­al­ly easy”, but you nev­er ac­tu …

Aug 16 2018 What’s Up 08/2018

~ 5 Minute Read.

I think noone who reads my blog has an over­view of what I’m work­ing on, and even on twit­ter you wouldn’t get that. So here is one:

Aug 12 2018 UE4 Automation Testing

9 minute read.

Have you ev­er had a fea­ture in an Un­re­al En­gine game that you had to come back to again and again, be­cause it was a nest of bugs? This gives you this un­easy feel­ing of that part be­ing un­sta­ble …

May 28 2018 UE4 Coding: Speeding up Compilation

There was one thing that al­ways frus­trat­ed me alot in the be­gin­ning of de­vel­op­ment with Un­re­al En­gine 4: It was the com­pile times, es­pe­cial­ly those for it­er­at­ing on your game. But it turns out that, if you stick to a cou­ple of key prin­ci­ples, they are man­age­able af­ter all.

Mar 02 2018 UE4 Code: Fixing Hot Reload of AutomationTests

Is­sue UE-25350 “Hot reload does not com­pile changes to au­to­ma­tion tests”, opened through a ques­tion on the an­swer­hub, has been around for quite a while now and may be one of many block­ers keep­ing you from writ­ing unit tests in Un­re­al En­gine. Which you should.

Jan 29 2018 UE4 Coding: Decoupling for Better Code

In the past year of UE4 de­vel­op­ment, I had prob­lems fig­ur­ing out how to struc­ture my game code: where to put game log­ic code to keep it read­able/main­tain­able, testable and re­us­able. This blog post sum­ma­rizes what I and my fel­low de­vel­op­ers have learnt as I fi­nal­ly feel con­fi­dent with my un­der­stand­ing.