https://krykftn.dev/blog/ Game development, Unity tooling and shipping notes by Koray Kaftanoğlu. en https://krykftn.dev/blog/mobile-localization-beyond-translating-strings/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/mobile-localization-beyond-translating-strings/ Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Shipping in one language means leaving 80% of your potential players on the table. But "just translate the strings" is the part where most teams stop — and it's also where most teams ship broken UIs to half the world. Here's what localization actually looks like once you take it seriously. 1. The Localization Mobile Unity i18n Production https://krykftn.dev/blog/puzzle-eating-mobile-2026/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/puzzle-eating-mobile-2026/ Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Open the US top-grossing chart right now. Royal Match. Block Blast. Candy Crush. Gardenscapes. Triple Match Masters. The top 20 reads like a puzzle catalog. The mechanic isn't trendy — it's structural. I've spent the last 18 months in publisher meetings, and every single one led with the same Puzzle Mobile Industry Game Design Monetization https://krykftn.dev/blog/algorithms-and-delegates-game-code/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/algorithms-and-delegates-game-code/ Mon, 04 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT Two parts of game programming get talked about less than they should: algorithms and delegates. Both are invisible when they work. Both are catastrophic when they don't. And both separate "this game runs at 60fps" from "this game stutters and we don't know why." I'll cover the algorithms that show Algorithms Delegates C# Unity Architecture https://krykftn.dev/blog/stop-coding-with-ai-start-thinking/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/stop-coding-with-ai-start-thinking/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT Most game devs are using AI wrong. The pattern I see in every Discord, every prototype, every "vibe coded in 4 hours" demo: paste the prompt, take the code, glue it together, ship it. Six weeks later the game doesn't make sense to anyone — including the dev who built it. I've shipped puzzle, AI Workflow Game Design Productivity Tools https://krykftn.dev/blog/patterns-game-code-practical-map/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/patterns-game-code-practical-map/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMT Ask 10 game devs about patterns and you'll get 10 different lists. Half think Singleton is fine. Half think Singleton is the devil. Both are right depending on context. This is the map I wish I had at year one. Architecture patterns, design patterns, game-specific patterns — what each one is, when Patterns Architecture Game Design Code Quality ECS https://krykftn.dev/blog/unity-6-deep-dive/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/unity-6-deep-dive/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Unity 6 dropped and the marketing bullet points are everywhere. This post is the version-control diff: what's actually new, what changed under the hood, and what you should care about if you're shipping mobile games. I've migrated production projects to Unity 6 over the last few months. Here's the Unity 6 Mobile URP Performance DOTS https://krykftn.dev/blog/500-hyper-casual-games/ https://krykftn.dev/blog/500-hyper-casual-games/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT I shipped 500 hyper-casual prototypes and games over the last several years. Most of you will never hear about 480 of them. That's not failure — that's the system working as designed. Here's what nobody tells you when you start. The Real Math of Hyper-Casual Out of 500 games, the distribution Hyper-Casual Mobile Game Design Production