Category Archives: Nucleus

Several things have moved from my TODO list to my DONE list where Nucleus is concerned, and I’ve learned a few useful things along the way. In keeping with the current trend in this blog, I’m going to share the … Continue reading →

Short one today, because there isn’t much to say, but it’s just enough to be worth writing about. I took another pass at the title screen last night—mostly just changing out the buttons for new ones and a couple of … Continue reading →

Today I took a break from working on gameplay code to get a little distance from the details and break up the sort of tasks I’m doing at any given point in time—this also keeps me from having a lot … Continue reading →

Yep, more little fiddly coding bits today. I’m very sorry. Today it’s a bit more about optimization and keeping code clean and quick-running from the perspective of someone that is admittedly not extremely good at it, but is trying very … Continue reading →

Another little snippet of wisdom from adventures in WP7 and XNA. Today it’s a useful little bit of trig for dealing with a particular input case… which is likely to be fairly common on a phone touchscreen, among other places. … Continue reading →

Ah, garbage collection. One of the high (and also low, low, low) points in favor of/against managed solutions like C#/XNA. High, because it frees you from having to lose sleep at night over your pointers and allocation and memory leaks … Continue reading →