Jan 7 · 12 min read · I Built a Game Engine from Scratch in C++ (Here's What I Learned) I crashed my GPU 47 times before I saw my first triangle on screen. For 3 months, I built a game engine from scratch in C++ using DirectX 9 and Win32—no Unity, no Unreal, no middleware...
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Sep 15, 2025 · 2 min read · 🕹️ My First “Robot Movement” Problem When I first made my player move with Input.GetKeyDown(), it worked… kinda.But holding down W felt super awkward. Tap it → nothing. Hold it → cube yeets forward at full speed. 🚀 No in-between. My cube was ei...
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Sep 14, 2025 · 2 min read · (aka how to finally make your game react when you smash a key) ⌨️ My First “Why Won’t It Jump?!” Moment I remember writing my first character controller.Hit Play, pressed the spacebar, and… nothing. I was slamming the key like it owed me money, but m...
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Aug 18, 2025 · 2 min read · 🕹️ My First “Oh No” Moment in Unity When I first opened Unity, I thought I would be making a game in five minutes. Spoiler alert: I was wrong😒 I slapped a cube into the scene, hit play… and Unity immediately hit me back with errors😢. Bright red, s...
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May 29, 2025 · 2 min read · Here is a little bit about the performance conscious decisions made to make Machi engine responsive and able to handle large scale simulations. How the Machi Engine Actually Works At the heart of Machi, there are two core components dancing together:...
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Apr 19, 2025 · 1 min read · ゲーム開発日誌、始めてみました。ここ「Mothra's Nest」では、自作ゲームエンジンの進捗や、うまくいったり詰まったりした話を、ラフに残していこうと思っています。 そもそも僕がプログラミングに興味を持ったのは、ゲームを作りたかったからです。普段は ゲーム開発でC++ を使っていますが、今回は心機一転して別の言語でチャレンジしようと思いました。 実は TypeScript で別プロジェクト（ターン制ゲーム）も進めているんですが、今回目標にしているものは 2Dシューティングゲームでは他にあま...
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Jan 14, 2025 · 7 min read · Cameras I have spent a lot of time this last week working to add multi-camera support into my custom game engine, so I figured that for this week’s blog I am going to talk about cameras. Virtual cameras that is, not real ones. So… cameras? Very Basic...
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Jan 7, 2025 · 12 min read · Introduction Welcome back to my blog series showing my progress towards creating my own custom game engine using C++ and Vulkan. This process so far has taught me a massive amount, and I have been enjoying every moment of it so far. For anyone who ha...
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Dec 17, 2024 · 7 min read · Introduction This is the third post I am making covering making my custom games engine, which means three weeks have passed since the first one! Time really does fly doesn’t it. For anyone who has not read the prior two blogs: I am a games programmer...
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Nov 19, 2024 · 9 min read · What is a game engine? A game engine is basically a piece of software and APIs that gives Game Devs all the tools and stuff they need to make and develop games. It's like a middleman between the game and your computer, taking care of things like grap...
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