Tag Archives: GameDev
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
Learnings from Unite 2015
I spent the last three days having a lovely time in Amsterdam attending the Unite Europe 2015 conference. This is just a place for me to gather my notes/thoughts while they’re still in my head: Iestyn Lloyd’s (@yezzer) Dropship … Continue reading
Creating a Unity game stretched over Two Monitors
I guess many developers, like me, use a dual-output graphics card to make their Windows workspace extend over two monitors. I’ve been experimenting with whether it’s possible to make a Unity game that spanned two monitors (and, perhaps even more … Continue reading
Previewing FBX Animations in Quicktime Player
I’ve been building up a library of FBX animations from a combination of MoCap stuff I’ve found around the internet and my own lovingly hand-crafted (though rather stilted – I’m not a natural animator!) clips. I now have a folder … Continue reading
The Hunt for Napoleon
I was commissioned to create a game for the “Nelson’s Norfolk” exhibition that has been running in The Forum, Norwich throughout August. “The Hunt for Napoleon” is a first-person adventure set during the Battle of the Nile, in which players … Continue reading
Keeping Track of Targets in a Trigger
Unity provides the OnTriggerEnter() and OnTriggerExit() events that fire whenever a collider enters or exits the designated trigger, and also an OnTriggerStay() that fires in every frame in which the collider is within the trigger. However, it doesn’t provide a … Continue reading
Sepia Shader
I found this techrepublic page, which gives a conversion algorithm from a standard RGB image to a Sepia image tone as follows: You can obviously tweak these values if you like – there is no exact formula (Sepia itself being … Continue reading
