Yet again a game developer has emerged on Reddit, in a public plea for answered, utterly bewildered by the launch sales of their game, a game that was in development by a team for 4 years and seemed like it was going to do well. At least that is what they were told by early testers [...]
It has been a while since I last posted, it has been a busy year with a new javascript development job and my daughter being born. Things have started to settle down a little, so I thought it might be a good time to kick things off by diving into some c# tutorials, I will then [...]
In this post I will demonstrate a solution to the common problem of slipping off moving platforms in Unity when using RigidBody game objects. The problem can be encountered in both 2D and 3D games, I will cover two known solutions I have come across, and explain in detail the solution I have applied in the game [...]
After several months of on and off tinkering, I finally managed to pack up and ship my latest personal indie project. I present to you, The Solar Journey. It's an interactive 3D, web app which allows you to explore and learn about the solar system in a rich and exciting way. Built in Html/css and Javascript then [...]
The Web Audio API is a BEAST. Most tutorials I have come across focus on the amazing features set it has. But how the hell do we play a simple sound or music file? Read on and I will show you. […]
If you have tried to build content for mobile web which requires audio, no doubt you have run into many issues. So called 'HTML5 audio' is not what it's cracked up to be, and was massively oversold by Apple (when it sought to destroy the flash browser plugin). When the dust settled we were left with [...]
In this tutorial I will explain how to create a realistic looking smoke effects in Unity. It will be your typical upwards smoke, which is ideal for camp-fires, smoky car engines. Basically anything that burns. It's also an effective way to simulate steam (for both 2D and 3D games). Unity uses what is called the 'Shuriken' [...]
Recently I have been working on a 2D platformer which uses the inbuilt Unity Physics and Rigidbodies. One of the challenges I ran into was that when the player moved above a certain velocity, it would sometimes pass through colliders. This would lead to the player getting stuck inside the floor when landing a from a [...]
I've been tinkering with Unity's 2D tooling since it was officially released in v4.3. With each new version we see some improvements in the 2D tools and workflow, but alas it's far from perfect and as a result getting things to work the way you want is all about trial and error. One thing I have learnt quickly [...]
Unity's button / Input system has been the source of confusion for many newcomers. It's no suprise, after all we have GetKey, GetKeyDown, GetKeyUp, GetButton, GetButtonDown, GetButtonUp. So let's try make sense of it all. GetKey / GetKeyDown / GetKeyUp Input.GetKey(...) will be familiar to developers coming from other platforms like Flash. It accepts either a KeyCode parameter [...]
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