Coding Adventures

Nacon treat you like garbage: Roguebook and Day 1 DLC (Apex Predator Pack) 20.06.2021
IL2CPP Tutorial: Finding loaders for obfuscated global-metadata.dat files 23.02.2021
Reverse Engineering Adventures: Brute-force function search, or how to crack Genshin Impact with PowerShell 24.01.2021
Reverse Engineering Adventures: VMProtect Control Flow Obfuscation (Case study: string algorithm cryptanalysis in Honkai Impact 3rd) 23.01.2021
Reverse Engineering Adventures: Honkai Impact 3rd (Part 3) 21.01.2021
Reverse Engineering Adventures: Honkai Impact 3rd (IDA Decompiler Techniques) (Part 2) 19.01.2021
Reverse Engineering Adventures: Honkai Impact 3rd (Houkai 3) (IL2CPP) (Part 1) 17.01.2021
Reverse Engineering Adventures: League of Legends Wild Rift (IL2CPP) 15.01.2021
Il2CppInspector Tutorial: Working with code in IL2CPP DLL injection projects 14.01.2021
IL2CPP Reverse Engineering Part 2: Structural Overview & Finding the Metadata 27.12.2020
Il2CppInspector Tutorial: How to create, use and debug IL2CPP DLL injection projects 27.11.2020
Fall Guys Practical IL2CPP Reverse Engineering: Extracting Protobuf definitions from applications using protobuf-net (Case Study: Fall Guys) 10.08.2020
IL2CPP Reverse Engineering Part 1: Hello World and the IL2CPP Toolchain 24.06.2020
Change to Twitter account 27.07.2015
Katy The Future of my Blog: I’m Still Alive 20.07.2015
LightSwitch for Games Part 4: OData Access from C++ Client Code with the C++ REST SDK 02.04.2014
How to statically link the C++ REST SDK (Casablanca) 01.04.2014
Simple2D 1.13 now available 28.03.2014
Final Wishes: Crowdfund Update 27.03.2014
Dying with M.E. as a software developer 27.01.2014
2D Platform Games Part 12: A Framework for Interactive Game Objects 04.01.2014
2013 in review 01.01.2014
Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 6: Recording and visualizing sound card output 24.11.2013
LightSwitch for Games Part 3: Creating a Web Interface for your Users 10.11.2013
Simple2D 1.12 now available 09.11.2013
Living with M.E. as a software developer 26.10.2013
Tetris: Adding gamepad support 30.08.2013
XInput Tutorial Part 2: Mapping gamepad buttons and analog movement to Windows keyboard events 30.08.2013
XInput Tutorial Part 1: Adding gamepad support to your Windows game 30.08.2013
LightSwitch for Games Part 2: OData Tutorial and User Account Management on the Server 29.08.2013
Simple2D 1.11 now available 29.08.2013
C# DirectX API Face-off: SlimDX vs SharpDX – Which should you choose? 24.08.2013
Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Get rid of the all-caps menu bars 23.08.2013
C++: Polymorphic cloning and the CRTP (Curiously Recurring Template Pattern) 22.08.2013
C++11: Multi-core Programming – PPL Parallel Aggregation Explained 17.08.2013
C++11 / Boost: Multi-threading – The Parallel Aggregation Pattern 15.08.2013
Crash Course: Excel VBA Macros For People Who Don’t Care About Excel VBA Macros 07.08.2013
PHPCron source code restored! 22.07.2013
‘Scale of The Universe and Our Closest Neighbours’ article restored! 22.07.2013
Xbox One Reveal Post-mortem: Microsoft reveals expensive PVR which under limited circumstances can play games 28.05.2013
Introduction to Multi-Threaded, Multi-Core and Parallel Programming concepts 17.05.2013
“Quite Interesting” Media Round-up: 13th May 2013 13.05.2013
“Quite Interesting” Media Round-up: 29th April 2013 29.04.2013
LightSwitch for Games Part 1: Introduction to Building your Game Data Network with LightSwitch 19.03.2013
Tetris: Adding polish with music, sound effects, backgrounds, game options, an intro sequence and other tweaks 15.03.2013
Simple2D 1.10 now available 14.03.2013
C++ Class Hierarchies Crash Course: Derivation (“is-a”) vs Composition (“has-a”), and Is a Square a Rectangle? 05.03.2013
Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 5: Real-time streaming of programmatically-generated audio 28.02.2013
SimpleFMOD 1.01 now available 27.02.2013
C++ Explained: Object initialization and assignment, lvalues and rvalues, copy and move semantics and the copy-and-swap idiom 27.02.2013
Simple2D 1.07 now available 24.02.2013
PlayStation 4 Reveal Post-mortem: The end of gaming as we know it? 21.02.2013
2D Platform Games Part 11: Collision Detection Edge Cases for The Uninitiated 19.02.2013
Visual Studio 2012 – Day 1 Annoyances (with an emphasis on C++) 19.02.2013
SimpleFMOD 1.00 now available 19.02.2013
Installation Instructions 18.02.2013
Simple2D 1.06 now available 18.02.2013
2D Platform Games Part 10: Improved Level Management and Storage 06.02.2013
2D Platform Games Part 9: Storing Levels in Files / Level Editors 29.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 8: Pass-through Platforms 29.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 7: Player Character Animation 28.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 6: Creating Platforms and Geometry the Player can be Inside (Ladders, Ropes and Water) 28.01.2013
Direct2D 1.1 Migration Guide for Windows 7 Developers 23.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 5: Surface Dynamics (slippery and sticky platforms) 21.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 4: Moving Platforms and Crush Detection 21.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 3: Scrolling and Parallax Backgrounds 21.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 2: Collision Detection Tweaks 20.01.2013
2D Platform Games Part 1: Collision Detection for Dummies 18.01.2013
Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 4: Frequency Analysis, Graphic Equalizer, Beat Detection and BPM Estimation 16.01.2013
Simple2D 1.05 now available – now with full source code and examples 16.01.2013
Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 3: Embedding Sounds In Your Application as Resources 15.01.2013
Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 2: Channel Groups 15.01.2013
Tetris Aside: Coding for T-Spins 13.10.2012
Tetris Revisited: Adding 2D Animations and Other Graphical Tweaks 12.10.2012
Cutting Your Teeth on FMOD Part 1: Build environment, initialization and playing sounds 05.10.2012
C++11: Using std::unique_ptr as a class member: initialization, move semantics and custom deleters 04.10.2012
Tutorial: Enabling Re-definable Controls in Windows games 29.09.2012
The State of the PlayStation Mobile SDK with regards to PlayStation Vita development 23.09.2012
C++11: About Lambda Functions 22.09.2012
Deployment with IExpress: How to turn your MSI file into an EXE 22.09.2012
How to determine programmatically whether your application and OS are 32 or 64-bit 22.09.2012
How to determine programmatically if your processor has hyperthreading, SIMD and other processing capabilities with __cpuid 22.09.2012
Tutorial: A Modern Approach To Implementing High Score Tables in C++ using STL and Boost 22.09.2012
Coding Challenge Postmortem And Analysis: Asteroids in 10 Hours 18.06.2012
Coding Challenge: Write Asteroids in 10 hours or less 13.06.2012
Tetris Revisited: Bells & Whistles 1 03.06.2012
Coding Challenge Postmortem And Analysis: Tetris in 8 Hours 23.05.2012
Coding Challenge: Write Tetris In 8 Hours or Less 22.05.2012
Installing Simple2D and Compiling your first application 21.05.2012
Learn To Program 2: Ground Rules 20.05.2012
Complete archive of old programming and science posts now available 20.05.2012
AJAX JavaScript Control (2012 Update) 18.05.2012
Complete Gaming Journalism archive now available 18.05.2012
Why Google Chrome 17 is making small developers unhappy 14.05.2012
Learn To Program 1: What It Takes 14.05.2012
How to enable right-clicking with a buttonless touchpad in Ubuntu 12.04 13.05.2012
Printing numbers in binary format in C++ 12.05.2012
Katy’s blog is back! 12.05.2012
The Gaming Rant 14 01.10.2010
The Gaming Rant 13 24.06.2010