I have recently become an author on the website Indie Game Buzz, a new hub for indie developers to hone their game dev skills and stay up to date with the latest news. One of the article I have written is Tips for building your fame as an indie developer. In the article I explain the importance of [...]
It's been a little while now since I wrapped up my last tutorial series, and I want to thank the readers who shared it around Twitter and sent me personal thanks. I love hearing how something I wrote helped somebody better their skills. We have all been there and are upgrading every day! So, to keep [...]
This is the 3rd and final installment in the mini tute series 'Creating 2D Animation States in Unity3D' . You can find previous installments here: Part1 | Part 2 In part 2 we created our Player animations, created an animation controller, organised our animations in the Animator window, and then mapped them to 'Conditions' based on [...]
So the latest game project I have been caught up in for the past few months hit the app store a few days ago. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind launch with a few last minute kinks . Overall it has been a successful launch. No.1 on iTunes and No.4 overall app (beating youtube!) for [...]
This post is part 2 of Understanding and Creating 2d Animation State management in Unity3d, In this tutorial we will be continuing from Part 1 and covering the following topics: Adding the player component Adding an animation State Manager to the player Defining Animation transition rules and parameters Switching between animations at runtime Ok so lets get [...]
In this post I will be sharing some techniques for looking after and protecting your Oculus Rift DK2 with a focus on lens protection. These are techniques I have applied to my own unit and seem to work. Feel free to recommend some variations and other tips that I can add to this post. [...]
After several months of waiting I have finally received my Oculus Rift DK2. I've now had it setup at home for much of the weekend, playing any demo I can get my hands on. I thought it would be a good time to share my (limited) experiences with the DK2 (firmware version 2.11) and some of [...]
Inheritance is an Object Oriented Programming concept (OOP) used to access and reuse the properties or methods of one class from another. The class being inherited from is known as the 'base' class, where the one inheriting from the base class is known as the 'derived' class. Let's think of it like this: John (derived class), is [...]
In this tutorial I will be explaining how to manage 2D animation states for characters in Unity3D using the new 2D tools that shipped with version 4.3. This process will include importing and slicing a Sprite Sheet (Ken from Street Fighter), assigning animation states with the new animation controller, and scripting simple keyboard controls to change [...]
In the post I will be covering a few rotation concepts used in Unity3D, these apply to development in 3D or 2D and I will be using C# as the language. Lets start with something simple: Object Rotation The following snippet will change an objects rotation to a specific degree. The scripts should be attached to [...]