Game Engine Architecture, 2nd Edition

9Tools for Debugging and Development

Developing game software is a complex, intricate, math-intensive and error-prone business. So it should be no surprise that virtually every professional game team builds a suite of tools for themselves, in order to make the game development process easier and less error-prone. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the development and debugging tools most often found in professional-grade game engines.

9.1 Logging and Tracing

Remember when you wrote your first program in BASIC or Pascal? (OK, may be you don’t. If you’re significantly younger than me—and there’s a pretty good chance of that—you probably wrote your first program in Java, or maybe Python or Lua.) In any case, you probably remember how you debugged ...