Recent posts tagged fsm

Returning readers, thank you for joining me again; for first-time readers, welcome. This article is something special—the humble beginnings of a digital rebellion against computational waste and the industry tyrants. I. Born of Desperation, Built fo...

One of the most common design patterns we utilize—so utilized that we often don't even recognize it as a pattern—is that of breaching a limit. Think about your daily routine: Are we within the index limits of this array? Has the player’s health d...

Escaping Boolean Hell: Why Your State Machine Needs to be Data-Driven We've all been there: a simple boolean flag here, a nested if statement there. It seems harmless at first, but soon your codebase is a tangled mess of conditional logic. Let's t...

The Problem with the Classic Game Loop Almost every interactive application, from video games to user interfaces, relies on a continuous execution loop. This loop is the heart of the application, responsible for everything from updating the game s...

Every developer has a story about an IDE or engine glitch that made them momentarily question their career choices. For me, that moment arrived late one evening, tracing a bug in our FSM-driven agents. Unity's Inspector decided to go on strike, showi...

The FSM Agent Architecture: Scaling NavMesh Agents with Decoupled Logic We've mastered simple oscillating motion with the FSM Context Pattern; now, we apply this powerful architectural approach to a far greater challenge: Massive NavMesh Agent AI....

We've successfully established a reusable architectural pattern by isolating the data Context from the logic flow Finite State Machine for the three primitive motions: Rotation, Scaling, and Translation. We created three distinct, independent bluepri...

Applying the FSM Context Pattern to Scaling: The Reusable ScalarFSM In our previous article, we demonstrated how to eliminate Update spaghetti by applying the FSM Context Pattern to complex Rotation logic. The result was a single, reusable blueprin...

Escaping Update Spaghetti: Reusable Oscillation with FSM & Context in Unity If you’ve ever built a Unity object that needs to move or rotate between two points—like a swinging pendulum, a turret oscillating for patrol, or a security camera scanning...