Sven's Dev Journal

Loosely Coupled Game Architecture with Events and Commands

This article introduces events and commands as a way to decouple game components. A (very) basic space shooter example illustrates how the pattern can be applied in practice.

May 10, 2025 · 11 min read

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Framework-Independent Game Logic with Hexagonal Architecture

Implementing a classic table tennis game using MonoGame, but making it so, that the game logic is independent of the framework using Hexagonal Architecture.

Dec 30, 2024 · 14 min read

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A* Pathfinding in 2D Games: Addendum about Cyclic Dependencies

Putting the grid navigation in its own class to avoid a cyclic dependency and to improve separation of concerns.

Dec 1, 2024 · 9 min read

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Shmup Devlog #4

Collisions, Part Deux

Fast bullets were tunneling straight through enemies undetected. This post digs into why, and adds a swept collision test for every pair the simple check misses.

Sep 18, 2026 · 15 min read

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Shmup Devlog #3

Collisions

This post is about benchmarking the collision detection system, comparing the brute-force approach to a spatial hash grid approach.

Apr 26, 2026 · 7 min read

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Shmup Devlog #2

One Life Closer to Game Over

This post is about player lifes, re-spawning, game over, score and pre-shot animations

Feb 28, 2026 · 2 min read

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Fitness Tracker

Fitness Tracker is an application for tracking fitness activities. It consists of a Spring Boot backend and a Nuxt frontend.

Jan 10, 2026 · 6 min read

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