ImGui UI 🖌️, Gut Automated Testing ⚙️, PixiEditor 2.0 🎨
🎮 Game Development Insights
Integrating Dear ImGui: Building UI for Vulkan Graphics Engines
Discover how to add powerful real-time user interfaces to your Vulkan graphics engine using the renowned Dear ImGui library. This detailed tutorial covers installation, command buffer setup, rendering, and user interaction, helping developers streamline tweaking light parameters, object transformations, and more. Perfect for beginners diving into Vulkan or anyone looking to enhance their engine with an efficient GUI.
Behind the Scenes: How PlayStack Signs Winning Games
PlayStack's transparent look at their game scouting and publishing process reveals strategies behind signing indie gems like Baltro and Abiotic Factor. The company balances data-driven and intuitive approaches to select innovative and aesthetically cohesive games. Discover how this London-based publisher builds successful developer relationships and pivots from mobile to PC and console game publishing.
🖥️ Performance and Optimization
Optimizing Game Performance: Mastering Multithreading on Hybrid CPUs
Discover how to optimize game performance using multithreading on hybrid CPUs. This insightful post unpacks strategies for balancing CPU core usage, tackling C-State transitions, and choosing between hard and soft affinity settings to enhance your game's execution. Learn from experiences shared in Dennis Gustafsson’s presentation to see real-world applications and improvements in physics solver performance.
Inside Gut: Streamlining Game Development with Automated Testing
Explore how Gut, a powerful automated testing framework for GDScript, can enhance your development experience. Founded by Butch Wesley, Gut emphasizes the benefits of testing in catching early bugs and streamlining improvements. Learn practical strategies and insights into effective testing, and see how Gut can become a valuable tool in your game development arsenal.
🖌️ Creative Tools and Innovations
PixiEditor 2.0: Unveiling the Universal 2D Graphics Revolution
PixiEditor has released its groundbreaking Version 2.0, transforming from a pixel-art to a Universal 2D Editor. This release introduces powerful features like Node Graph for advanced rendering and procedural animations, as well as support for vector and raster graphics. Explore a new era of creative flexibility with specialized workspaces and the Founder's Pack for additional resources.
Inside NeoVim: Evolving Vim's Legacy Through Innovation
Join NeoVim founder Justin M. Keyes on a detailed exploration of NeoVim's development journey, from its inception as a Vim fork to becoming a widely-used text editor. Discover the architectural choices, including the use of Lua scripting and LSP, the challenges of maintaining an open-source project, and the team's commitment to ensuring API stability while introducing innovative features.