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After bashing all those Big Name guys for making those over-arching sets of guidelines, it is perfectly logical for me myself to do the same?

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DON’T use C-style cast, EVER. If you DO need a cast – DO spend time on figuring out which of C++ *_cast<>s you really mean (and maybe, you’ll find a way to avoid that cast at all)

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The basic idea behind Continuous Integration is simple: as soon as you commit something, a build is automatically run with all the tests you were able to invent by that time

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One thing which should be noted about agile criticisms, is that there is no real disagreement about what needs to be done; the sentiment in such criticisms is usually more along the lines of “we’re doing it anyway, so do we need fancy names and external consultants?

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The biggest problem with building your game around 3rd-party game engine is that in this case, the game engine becomes your Absolute Dependency

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In future chapters we will keep in mind three specific game/network engines, and will discuss their pros and cons with relation to the issues we are raising. These engines are Unity 5, Unreal Engine 4, and Photon Server

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If you're very proud of some feature - think twice if it will really work.

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One thing nobody realised for a while is that the system with the least possible amount of chargebacks is the system which rejects all transactions outright