C++ – Scott Tansom

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 4 February 20264 February 2026
Posted in C++, Code Studio, Dev Diary, University

Code Studio Workshop 5 & 6

Completed workshop 5 for Code Studio. This workshop went over how to create and work with functions including passing by value and reference. This workshop wasn’t too difficult but it did help further reinforce C++ programming and taught me how to pass by reference which I didn’t know how to do before in C++. Completed

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 24 November 202524 November 2025
Posted in C++, Code Studio, Dev Diary, University

Code Studio Workshop 3 & 4

Completed Workshop 3 for code studio. It was pretty easy as I have done classes before in VB. It was handy to practice more C++ and get used to the syntax more. It was a bit difficult to get used to how to create a list and how to add items in C++. Completed Workshop

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 18 November 2025
Posted in Blueprints, C++, CSGO, Dev Diary, University, Unreal Engine

CSGO Workshop 2 & 3 – Logic & Classes

I went through workshops 2 & 3 for CSGO, they focused on conditional statements, logical & boolean expressions as well as classes and object orientated programming. I found the theory behind it all pretty simple as it’s stuff I have learnt before but it was good to recap it, especially OOP as it’s been a

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 13 November 2025
Posted in Blueprints, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

The Bears and The Bees – Dev Diary

For our game we decided to make a game inspired by Doom (1993) in terms of very basic FPS game but instead of a man and demons we had a bear and bees. I was the sole programmer on the team so I worked on both the mechanics and the AIs. For this project I

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 26 October 202526 October 2025
Posted in C++, Code Studio, Dev Diary, University

Code Studio Workshop 2

This week I worked on the second workshop task for Code Studio. Once again it was pretty simply just going through selection and iteration methods in C++. It was helpful to learn more of the syntax for C++ and also practice C++ in general.

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 18 October 202526 October 2025
Posted in C++, Code Studio, Dev Diary, University

Code Studio Workshop 1

Worked through the first workshop task of Code Studio. It was pretty simple as it was just going over the basics of working in Visual Studio, programming and C++. Not all of it was helpful to me as I have worked with Visual Studio a lot in the past and know the basics of programming

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 12 October 202512 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #4

Today and yesterday I managed to sort out: Not all of this is coded in C++, due to time I put some of this into Blueprints as I know how they work and can work with them quicker. Almost all of BBB is coded in C++ the only times I used Blueprints were for handling

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 11 October 202511 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #3

Yesterday I sorted out: this was all pretty easy to sort out what slowed everything down was quaternions. When applying and calculating the turn I was working with quaternions which work very differently to how I was expecting them to work. I spent awhile trying to get them to work before figuring out that quaternions

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 9 October 202511 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #2

Today I set up: My main trouble was trying to figure out how to call a subroutine from a different script. All the code I’ve done so far has been on the GameMode but I want to handle the rotation of the reels in the their script. So I needed to figure out how to

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 8 October 202518 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #1

I started working on the programming for BearBearBear (BBB). I’ve decided to use C++ and Unreal Engine for this project as I want to improve my C++. The main challenge I was tackling today was trying to figure out how to get reels in a slot machine to work. My solution was to use a