Author: Andrew Allbright

As you may have gathered from some of my previous posts I enjoy learning about game development. Game Agent AI Programming, a specialized subject in game programming, led me to an an interesting person (and team) who seek to coalesce industry knowledge into a consumable series of books: the Game AI Pro series. Little did… Continue reading I Recommend: Steve Rabin’s Code Optimization DevDeck

I believe one flavor of software that will become more common over time is software that uses (multiple) fine-tuned pretrained AI models as libraries to provide stochastic reasoning capabilities intended to be run on edge computing applications. I realized that was exactly what I was doing while recently building with MediaPipe and Unity, where the… Continue reading Fine-tuned Pretrained AI Models Afford Futuristic Software Capabilities for Edge Apps

I’ve been working with Google’s MediaPipe which is a augmented reality (AR) library that can be used on low power devices (such as a phone). Basically MediaPipe is a collection of pre-trained AI that lets a developer do some interesting things. You can use it for single images or video sources such as a webcam.… Continue reading Useful Enums for MediaPipe Hand and Pose Landmarker Model

It’s difficult to provide a generalized statement but I can say I observe there exists common things in the kinds of games that I typically want to make. I find they typically involve understanding character (and object) animations in terms of animation clip transitions and the vocabulary common to fighting games. More about my hypothesis… Continue reading Competitive Fighting Games as Framework of Game Combat System

Thanks to AliExpress I’ve been able to obtain more electronic components for cheap. Many moons ago I developed robotics. I 3D printed 4 legged robots, built circuits to support 8 9g servos, an arduino, and support a small lipo battery. In an unexpected turn of events, I actually flashed the arduinos to be able to… Continue reading ESP32 as a Robot Brain

I transitioned my personal blog from a DIY scalable AWS solution to a Shared Hosting solution. Allow me to explain my thinking. I had my blog hosted on AWS. I thought my words may have wide reach. Perhaps I even share excellent blogs on popular programmer websites such as hackernews or daily dev. Surely it… Continue reading Migrating blog from AWS to Shared Hosting

AWS GameLift is a cool product allowing game developers (hobbyist or professional) to develop multiplayer projects. You provide the game server executable and GameLift will take care of hosting the server processes, to your specifications. They even have a collection of features called “GameLift Anywhere” that supports a local development. Say you want to test… Continue reading Techniques to Mitigate GameLift Anywhere’s Odd Delays

Good writing mostly follows the adage “show don’t tell” to help writers prioritize how they are conveying information. Perhaps video games should follow a “touch, don’t show” guiding light to help game developers convey experiences meaningful to the interactive medium.

Large language models have hit the scene and they represent a large disruption to how work is traditionally done. Programming is no exception. I’ve been using LLMs like chatGPT and copilot for almost a year now. I saw potential of using the tool for my own creator activities. I have some thoughts on how AI… Continue reading Robot Talk: The Future of Programming?

I’ve thought about what sort of information I’d want to see if I were watching an educational course on the topic of “automated testing for video games.” Here are my thoughts. I would assume a course would start out with the basics. Basics like here is a test, here is how to come up with… Continue reading Hypothetical Course on Automated Testing for Video Games