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Alexander Larsen

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Unity XR & Indie Game Dev from Copenhagen Currently remaking Tails, a VR Snake-like I made with a friend in 2016. Nobody asked for a remake, but we're doing it anyway and it'll be much better this time 🤷🏻‍♂️ alexanderlarsen.com #GameDev #IndieDev #VR #XR

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 12d

🐉 Tails (VR Snake) Dev Log #5. Back with a big under-the-hood change: now powered by Saneject, my editor-time DI framework for Unity. No more GetComponent chaos or fragile drag and drop. Clean DI structure with inspector visibility.

#TailsVR #Saneject #GameDev #Unity3D #VR #XR

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 4h

I'm looking forward to this one!

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Made an auto player for faster testing. Who needs players when the game can play itself?

#TailsVR #GameDev #IndieDev #Unity #VR #VRDev #MadeWithUnity #IndieGameDev #Debugging

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to track down a dragon head jitter bug that doesn’t really show in the video - but it’s haunting me in VR.

#SendHelp #GameDev #Unity #VR #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity #VRDev #Debugging #IndieGameDev

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me about it. Nothing like updating ancient projects and watching all the dependencies explode 😬

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 9d

Spent all day patching the recent Unity security vulnerability in Saneject, WordBaby, and a bunch of old itch.io games that no one plays. Thanks for the productive day, Unity!

#Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 9d

This looks trippy in the best way!

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks a lot! Really glad you like it :)

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 12d

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GitHub - alexanderlarsen/Saneject: Dependency injection the Unity way.

Dependency injection the Unity way. Contribute to alexanderlarsen/Saneject development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · 12d

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Sep 9

🎨🧊 Smashy Cubes. Made a silly Unity prototype for a job test that didn’t work out. Fling cubes, watch them shatter into hundreds of fragments, then get guilt-tripped by a robot vacuum into cleaning. Play here 👉 alexanderlarsen.itch.io/smashy-cubes

#GameDev #Unity3D #IndieDev #PhysicsChaos

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Bsky butchered the image quality on mobile. Better on desktop. Here is a sharp version for the mobile folks imgur.com/a/KSkA7Sk

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 21

📦 Add Git URL to UPM to get started:
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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Had enough of Unity’s half-serialized, half-GetComponent dependency spaghetti creeping into every class? 🍝🙅🏻‍♂️

Saneject injects dependencies at editor-time: clean API, declarative rules, full Inspector visibility. No runtime container, no second lifecycle.

#Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #OpenSource

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Unity AAA demo: green bean chases red bean. OK it looks awful, but it's actually a learning demo that ships with Saneject (Unity editor-time DI). Catch beans, learn DI!

🏷️ v0.9.0 beta
🧩 Unity 2022.3.12f1 → 6.2
🔗 github.com/alexanderlarsen/Saneject

#Unity #Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev #OpenSource

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you! Basically yes, it's rigged 3D models moving along a spline drawn by the controller :)

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 14

Saneject - Unity editor-time DI for serialized fields and serialized interfaces - now supports Unity 2022.3.12f1 and up. 225 automated tests on six Unity versions run on every git push. Zero manual testing before 1.0.0 release. I’ll sleep better now.
#Unity #Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev #OpenSource

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Aug 4

⚙️ 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!

#Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #DI #OpenSource #XR

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

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 16

I like that idea! Any ETA on release?

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 8

I will let you know how it goes!

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

#Unity3D #GameDev #IndieDev #VR #Saneject #TailsVR

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

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Alexander Larsen @alexanderlarsen.bsky.social · Jul 8

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!