Silas Reinagel - Extreme Software Engineering

Jul 21, 2020 - 8 minute read

Reactive Game State in Unity

Performance is key in game development. Your players want silky smooth 60+ frames per second. One of the common performance expenses is using the Update loop to check data values for changes. I will show you how to setup a simple Reactive Game State system.

Jun 26, 2020 - 4 minute read

Software Development and The Principle of Flow

Software development is a deep, rich, and complex problem domain. It’s easy to get wrapped up in all the tools, frameworks, languages, practices, and so forth. It’s effortless to lose sight of the key goal. If you were to focus on only one thing as you create software, what one thing should you pick? You should pick throughput. Read on to find out why this is the most important thing.

May 4, 2020 - 6 minute read

Game Jamming with a Large Team without Pure Chaos

A couple weekends ago, I led a team for Ludum Dare 46. We created a video game from scratch in 72 hours. Many people voiced expressed surprise, awe, and curiosity about how we managed to do that with such a large team and have everything work out smoothly.

Mar 24, 2020 - 5 minute read

Lean Software Process

There are two ways to increase your development efficiency. One way is to increase the value of your work. The other is to reduce the resource cost of your work. How can we apply the insights of Lean Manufacturing to reduce the costs involved in software development? Read on to find out.