I've started working on the next chapter of CiderKit: User Interfaces. And that's a big one! In this post I explain why I ended up building my own CSS parser in order to apply styles to my UI elements.

SpriteKit is a 2D game engine, but its limitations make difficult working with specific designs, like pseudo 3D. Unfortunately, CiderKit, the SpriteKit-based game engine I'm working on, calls for more than what's available out of the box. In this post, I will discuss how I've implemented my own custom deferred lighting model within the constraints of SpriteKit.

In its early days, Apple (and subsequently the Mac) was a big player in the gaming market. But as time went by, the global Apple market share in the personal computer segment plumeted. And so went its relevance with gaming. In this post, I discuss the issues Apple is facing in the desktop gaming market and potential solutions that in my humble opinion could improve the situation.

I expect most macOS, iOS, or tvOS developers to use Xcode as their main development environment, especially if they're working with Swift. You can use other IDEs with other languages, like Xamarin or Unity for example, but that's not the "Apple way". This obviously also applies to anyone working with SpriteKit. In this post, I will detail what's good or wrong with Xcode support for SpriteKit.

In this direct follow-up to my 2022 retrospective post, I will lay out my goals for the new year, regarding my projects and this website.