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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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• Should Unity be making games?

  Posted on March 21, 2025

  There is this general assumption that engines get better just by having the engine maker also use the engine to make games. I want to add some thoughts to that. [Read More]

• Yet another VS freeze

  Posted on March 13, 2025

  I have been waiting for Visual Studio 2022 to unfreeze for the last 30min, and now you get to read about it. [Read More]

• Not Obviously Bad, and Obviously Not Bad

  Posted on March 10, 2025

  Someone asked the other day what a reasonable performance target is for a general purpose engine. This is an interesting question, so let’s discuss it a bit. [Read More]

• Performance theories

  Posted on March 4, 2025

  Last time, I wrote about data and decision making, and some frustrations when people pretend like “data” is always the solution. Now let’s look at a place where data very often is (part of) the answer: Profiling and performance is a comparatively forgiving space data-wise, because at least the hypothesis... [Read More]

• A non-exhaustive list of faults in Unity's Cache Server

  Posted on February 26, 2025

  I recently looked into setting up a Unity cache server (“Accelerator”). It is quickly becoming clear that the accelerator is not, in fact, accelerating Unity. Here is a list of shortcomings: Some of the most expensive asset types are not even cached. In particular, neither shader graph assets nor VFX... [Read More]

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