Author Archives: alastaira

I’m Back! Having Escaped the Room…

*Apologetically knocks on door* Ooooh, hello again. Remember me? Crikey – has it been that long? I’ve been doing quite a lot over the last two years – new jobs, many new games and projects, and just general life – … Continue reading

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Guess Who Reloaded for the Rainbow Jam 2016

I recently enrolled to take part in the Rainbow Jam but, with somewhat of a lack of foresight, failed to realise I was going to be on holiday in France for most of the jam period, without either a computer … Continue reading

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Bulk-renaming files

I recently found myself needing to rename around 100 files. The reason was that I had saved a series of video fragments from the middle of a much larger streaming video – so the fragment number of each filename was … Continue reading

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Unity Shadertoys (a.k.a Converting GLSL shaders to Cg/HLSL)

If you’ve tried dabbling with shaders at all, you’ve probably come across ShaderToy – an online shader showcase with some pretty amazing examples of what’s possible in a few lines of shader code, inspired greatly by classic demoscene coding. Here’s … Continue reading

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