Last January I decided to try a 1 week game jam. I never tried a 1 week jam before and it was rough. The theme of the jam was “holes”. Introducing Prairie Dog Simulator My plan was to create a game where the player can only create holes and spawn more prairie dogs. The prairie […]
Mod.IO Update Early this summer I received a few emails requesting Mod.IO integration. I finally got around to adding it in and I’m really happy with the results. Users can now search Mod.IO and load blueprints straight into the app. I wanted to reuse the blueprint loader code but it wasn’t generic enough so I […]
A few months ago, I started working on a new version of my calculator. My goal is to modernize the UI and improve performance. I still have a lot of work before I can release it but I thought I would show what I have so far. The item list […]
I’m making more progress on my air hockey game. It’s taking longer than expected but I thought I would give an update. There’s been a lot of work done and plenty more to go. Movement Upgrade The movement system for players and AI has been totally revamped. Previously, paddles would move directly to a position but […]
Whoops, this post is a month late. In May I completed my second game jam. The theme this time was stop motion animation. I like Wallace and Gromit so I decided to use clay for my characters. I opted for a traditional stop motion animation technique which involved using a camera to take pictures each […]
Air Hockey Arcade is my current project I’m working on. I want to be able to add and update content without making the end user download the entire game again. Unity gives developers the ability to load content in at runtime using AssetBundles. Android’s Play Store allows developers to include two additional files with their […]
This video has some excellent tips and it helped me make some simple optimizations to my UI in Space Engineers Calculator. The short story: I added sub-canvases and replaced Unity’s vertical layout group with my own implementation. The long story: My application consists of mostly Unity UI. Most of the application runs reasonably well except […]
I’ve started working on an Air Hockey game for Android with my buddy Patrick Lesage. He’s a talented artist who has helped me in the past with “Anyone for a sodium tube” which was for our submission into a game jam last year. This time we thought it would be fun to create a two […]
Just released the final panel for Space Engineers Calculator. This panel will help players calculate the amount of power they need for their ship. Like the thruster panel it is integrated with the build list so anything added from the item list will be part of the power draw calculation if it requires power to […]
Happy New Year! I’m working on a thruster panel which will help players determine if their ship will fly or crash. The UI is coming together and the main calculations are working. I just need to add some error checking. Here’s a picture of what the panel currently looks like. Some things have come up while creating […]
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