Alexander Larsen

GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. - alexanderlarsen/Saneject

⚙️ Saneject v0.7.0 update is out. Easy Unity DI with zero runtime overhead or second lifecycle. Injects dependencies in-editor into serialized fields (yes, interfaces too). Now with collection injection, advanced filtering, 225 unit tests, and more!

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I like that idea! Any ETA on release?

Looks fun! It gives me Endless War vibes. I loved those games back in the... 2000s I think?

Saneject link for the curious. It's so new that Google hasn't indexed the repo yet github.com/alexanderlar...

I will let you know how it goes!

Planning to get back to work on Tails soon 🐉
Got a bit sidetracked improving the architecture… and accidentally built a full open source DI system instead. Saneject actually started as a small thing for Tails, so now I get to really battletest it.

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Yep, same here! Zenject is powerful but for simpler projects, there is just too much ceremony. Feel free to reach out if you got questions, find bugs or have any suggestions

It might sound annoying and boilerplate-y but the tools actually generate the player proxy with just two clicks and interface forwarding is taken care of by a source generator.

The beta release includes a small demo game, that also has an instantiated enemy prefab referencing the player. The game also uses proxies for references between scenes. Feel free to check it out!

The proxy is a ScriptableObject, so it can be serialized/referenced everywhere. It forwards all interface calls to the concrete and at runtime it locates the concrete instance (e.g. PlayerController) on first access. So there is a runtime operation involved here, but it's cheap :)

GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. - alexanderlarsen/Saneject

Good question! The enemy would need to access the player by interface (e.g. IPlayer), then you would create an InterfaceProxyObject<PlayerController> for the player and plug that into the IPlayer field in the enemy prefab. More details here github.com/alexanderlar...

Thanks everyone!

Exactly 😃 Glad you like it

GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. Dependency injection that feels native to Unity. Resolve your dependencies in the Editor. No runtime container, no surprises. - alexanderlarsen/Saneject

Introducing Saneject → Dependency injection that feels native to Unity.
Editor-time resolution, no runtime container, no surprises.
Clean, easy to use, Inspector-friendly, with serialized interfaces!
Beta out now → github.com/alexanderlar...

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You can do it! Let us know how it goes 💪

Appreciate it! Sorry to hear about your headset. Sounds like it's time for an upgrade 😅 Tails is still in development, but it's coming to a headset near you at some point

The look on his face also seems really sincere that he's gonna get weird with it

Seeing Danny Devito as a low poly character made me laugh

Totally agree! When you do game dev outside your day job, it's all about the slow incremental progress. Chipping away on those tasks every day :)

I'm intrigued! Give me a link

Congrats!

🐉 Tails (VR Snake) Dev Log #4! Tails is back from dev vacation with Quest Mixed Reality passthrough, firework-style dragon deaths, left/right hand support, controller visual fixes, UI dialog system

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No such thing as too many refactors if you ask me! I could refactor all day

Trailer looks great! Your link just goes to the Steam front page though. For me at least 🤔

If you made a cool and unique system for your game, I would personally find it interesting to read how you did it. That's something ChatGPT can't really answer :)

I would say it depends on your goal and audience. If it's to showcase your expertise for employers and collaborators, it could work well - or promoting your games from a tech standpoint. But for generic tutorials and such it's probably hard to compete

Depends on what you're going for. They definitely seem like a threat at that speed!

This looks cool! Reminds me of games I played as a kid. DOOM, Duke Nukem etc

It's OK to take a break every once in a while to take care of yourself and avoid burnout. Also one of the liberties when you're an indie dev and don't have a manager breathing down your neck. You deserve it! Good luck with the game :)