Indie Gamedev by Johan Steen https://blog.bitbebop.com Game development with Unity, C#, and related technologies to build amazing games as a solodev or small team. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:37:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en Indie Gamedev by Johan Steen https://blog.bitbebop.com/favicon.svg https://blog.bitbebop.com Copyright 2026, Johan Steen Technology Game Development Programming <![CDATA[Unity Test Runner with TeamCity]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/unity-test-runner-teamcity/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/unity-test-runner-teamcity/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 02:25:00 GMT

Run Unity tests from a TeamCity build configuration in a DevOps pipeline.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Gitea Status Checks with TeamCity]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/gitea-teamcity-status-checks/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/gitea-teamcity-status-checks/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:17:00 GMT

Setup TeamCity to publish Gitea Status Checks in a DevOps pipeline.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Blitloop Devlog #1: Introduction]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/blitloop-devlog-1-intro/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/blitloop-devlog-1-intro/ Sun, 03 Dec 2023 07:19:00 GMT

The first devlog episode documenting the making of Blitloop, a next-gen retro game built with Unity.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[SpriteKit Safe Area]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/spritekit-safe-area/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/spritekit-safe-area/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:43:00 GMT

Handle the screen's safe areas with collapsing margins in a SpriteKit SKScene.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Game Event System with Swift]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/game-event-system-swift/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/game-event-system-swift/ Mon, 30 May 2022 12:05:00 GMT

Build an event system with Swift for a highly modular game architecture using isolated game systems without hard dependencies.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Game Center Achievements with Swift]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/game-center-gkachievement-swift/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/game-center-gkachievement-swift/ Sun, 08 May 2022 04:04:00 GMT

Use Swift to manage Game Center Achievements and report progress with decoupled condition logic.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Sprite Component in GameplayKit]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/swift-gameplaykit-sprite-component/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/swift-gameplaykit-sprite-component/ Sun, 01 May 2022 04:04:00 GMT

Use a dedicated sprite component with GameplayKit using Swift to decouple rendering from transformations.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Game Input System in Swift]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/swift-game-input-system/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/swift-game-input-system/ Sun, 24 Apr 2022 08:42:00 GMT

Build a rock solid and reusable game input system in Swift. It works with all of Apple's game frameworks and is device agnostic.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Transform Component in GameplayKit]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/gameplaykit-transform-component/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/gameplaykit-transform-component/ Sun, 17 Apr 2022 05:08:00 GMT

Create a transform component for GameplayKit in Swift to get a clean and robust API for everything related to position, rotation, and scale.

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]]> Johan Steen <![CDATA[Batch Remove System for GameplayKit Entities]]> https://blog.bitbebop.com/gameplaykit-remove-component/ https://blog.bitbebop.com/gameplaykit-remove-component/ Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:42:00 GMT

Flag and batch remove objects from the game world by using a GameplayKit component and component system with Swift.

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