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Good Manga, Anime, and Music Albums/EPs I Came Across in 2025

Good manga, anime, and music albums/EPs I came across in 2025.

An Introduction to Color for Graphic Design

An article written for a club graphic design workshop, covering how to use color models, the characteristics of the HSB model, and things to keep in mind when working with color in graphic design.

2024-12-25

The Graphic Design of Tears of the Kingdom

A presentation for my club

2024-04-27

Optimizing My Keyboard Layout for a Better Life

To improve my coding experience, I redesigned my keyboard layout and got rid of my pinky pain. If you're dealing with something similar, read on. Specifically, I adopted virtual layers and Home Row Mods. Over long-term use, I also arrived at a symbol layer design that works well for me. I implemented the design with Kanata, a cross-platform open-source tool.

2025-12-22

Unreal 5 Multiplayer Network Replication: A Source Code Walkthrough (Basics)

This article uses UE source code and comments to walk through the network replication process in UE 5's server-client multiplayer model.

2025-05-27

Reading the Unreal 5 Garbage Collection Source

UE 5 uses a mark-sweep garbage collection strategy, with support for incremental collection and cluster-based counting optimizations. This article walks through the UE 5 garbage collection source and summarizes some of its programming patterns.

2025-05-22

Getting Started with Unreal 5 C++ Multiplayer: Resources and Notes

These are personal notes: a lightweight introductory resource for non-UE developers and people with no multiplayer development experience. Topics include things to watch out for when developing with Rider, commonly used UE C++ classes, garbage collection, and multiplayer networking concepts and features.

2025-05-14

Serializing Components with Bevy Reflection

Our game uses custom scene files, which means a lot of scene serialization work. This article briefly introduces how to use bevy_reflect to serialize and deserialize Components (to TOML files), including how to insert deserialized reflected values into an Entity. Along the way, I use the custom scene serialization in 猫方块 as an example.

2025-03-26

An Overview of the Bevy Engine's Rendering Architecture

This article briefly introduces Bevy's rendering architecture, including the directed acyclic graph that manages rendering order, System ordering in the rendering workflow, render phases for different objects, and interactions between the main world and the render world. It uses Bevy Core 3D's rendering implementation as a reference. It also briefly covers how to use Bevy's rendering APIs in everyday development.

2025-02-20

Programming Theory Fundamentals for Game Development

This article was prepared for a club presentation by 宏楼 (me) and 拉斯普 (Aspirin). It covers the basic concepts of some important theories in game development, including programming paradigms, object-oriented programming, composition and inheritance, data-oriented programming, the concepts and benefits of ECS, and the architectures used by some game engines currently on the market.

2024-04-06

The Editor Tools in A Monster's Expedition | Notes from ThinkyCon 2024

These are notes on the ThinkyCon 2024 presentation about the editor in A Monster's Expedition. It gave us quite a few ideas for developing the level editor for the puzzle game we're working on.

2024-04-05

Quick Notes on the Notion API

Some notes on the Notion API

2023-10-03

Notes on Building a Static Blog Generator with Kotlin/JVM

I built my own static blog generator with kotlin-jvm, notion, and typescript. This blog is generated with it. Writing it was a lot of fun.

2023-10-02

UI Design and Development Notes [Unity], 2023.2.8 Edition

Notes for myself

2023-09-23

Good Manga, Anime, and Music Albums/EPs I Came Across in 2025

Good manga, anime, and music albums/EPs I came across in 2025.

01-03

Time Management in Game Jams

These are some approaches to time management during game jams. I hope they help when you're stuck or don't know where to start. They won't suit every project or every person, so adjust them to your situation.

2023-11-09

Finding Inspiration in Game Jams

2023-11-08

Blog Page and Style Test

Page style test

2023-09-30

Welcome to Koiro's Cat Café!

Good Manga, Anime, and Music Albums/EPs I Came Across in 2025

An Introduction to Color for Graphic Design

The Graphic Design of Tears of the Kingdom

Optimizing My Keyboard Layout for a Better Life

Unreal 5 Multiplayer Network Replication: A Source Code Walkthrough (Basics)

Reading the Unreal 5 Garbage Collection Source

Getting Started with Unreal 5 C++ Multiplayer: Resources and Notes

Serializing Components with Bevy Reflection

An Overview of the Bevy Engine's Rendering Architecture

Programming Theory Fundamentals for Game Development

The Editor Tools in A Monster's Expedition | Notes from ThinkyCon 2024

Quick Notes on the Notion API

Notes on Building a Static Blog Generator with Kotlin/JVM

UI Design and Development Notes [Unity], 2023.2.8 Edition

Good Manga, Anime, and Music Albums/EPs I Came Across in 2025

Time Management in Game Jams

Finding Inspiration in Game Jams

Blog Page and Style Test