TL;DR -> Today, cross-platform projects are easy to setup (except UWP), with .NET7, it gets easier. Read the article for the How-to!
Most Game projects when built are solely for a single platform, usually the same as the development machine they are being built upon. Only later does the idea surface to maybe ship to another console, handheld or platform which then highlights issues in the games implementation that can lead to issues.
TL;DR -> MonoGame rocks and continues to be one of the best open-source frameworks for building games including with lightweight editors like VSCode, on ANY platform.
Things are busy and heating up in the Open-Source development space and the MonoGame Team announced their plans to step up to the recent demand.
TL;DR -> MonoGame rocks and continues to be one of the best open-source frameworks for building games.
Making games is hard enough (or the most fun you will ever have) without the worry of the Framework or Engine you use either being cancelled or changing the terms of its use in the future, which can provide uncertainty for the years of effort you put into making your dream a reality that everyone can play.
TL;DR -> Jekyll builds can have page collisions in different places if the pages happen to have the same title. Skip ahead to fix!.
WOW, it has been a while since I last posted, which is genuinely very bad for me, not to say I have been lazy or up to no good, quite the opposite, I have a myriad of things on my mind:
Managing automation is hard enough without having to pollute your git history with changes to your actual workflows, in reality, the workflow itself is unlikely to change but there can be subtle updates in what each workflow action needs to do.
With Azure Devops and GitHub Actions you have the option to either use their hosted agents using the Azure backend, which is fine as you do get a decent amount of time of free resource but eventually you are going to end up paying for the service. Or, you can host your own agents on your own PC or even a dedicated box just for building.
Similar to GitHub Actions, Azure can automate the building / testing and deploying of your Unity solution. It is true, that Microsoft is on a journey to migrate all build automation to GitHub to offer a more accessible way for developers to automate their project, however,there are a few notable exceptions and capabilities that are still far superior in Azure Devops currently that are worth exploring, namely:
GitHub actions offers the power of Azure automation but in a far simpler and easy-to-use package, reducing the requirements and setup needed to get your automation off the ground. There are some things Azure still does better but for the most part, GitHub provides a wealthy estate of information and "out of the box" solutions for automating almost any workflow.
Thanks to creating your pages in Part 1 and then theming it in Part 2, you already have a nice looking site, maybe with a little flair. Now it is time to start writing some content, whether that is a blog post or a regular page for your site, you want to make writing easy and if at all possible, avoid installing any tools.
Following on from Part 1 in the GitHub Pages series - Getting started with blogging using GitHub pages and Jekyll
Now that you have got a taste for your very own free site using GitHub Pages, let us start to personalize your site a little more to your liking.
Finding somewhere to post your content, be it pages, blogs or material can be a tough decision these days. There are many options, most of which require you to pay upfront to use the service, while others lure you in with a free trial hoping that you will stay after the amount of effort you have put in to get things set-up.
The concept of play to earn is fast becoming the trend with games of late but Microsoft seems to be going one better. There are now even more ways to earn points by searching and playing games than ever before.