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Unity Tip: Rigidbody Interpolation
When Intergalactic Sheep Pong was first published, I noticed some choppiness when the game was running in Firefox. The graphics would hang and then suddenly unfreeze, revealing objects in new,...
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Unity Resource: XYMouseController
Here’s a companion to the XYController example. It demonstrates translating the mouse’s screen coordinates into a point in Unity world space, and using this to position an object. (Translation: it...
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Unity Resource: LangmanController
While developing Langman, much of my time was spent tweaking the PlatformerController script from the 2D Lerpz tutorial. I made some changes to how it works, and along the way I encountered (and fixed)...
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Langman Soundtrack
Many people have told me how much they like the 8-bit music featured in Langman. All of the songs listed in the game’s credits can be found on 8bitcollective. Here they are in order of appearance:...
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Intergalactic Sheep Pong
It is the 24th century, and the age-old conflict between farmers and ranchers continues. This introductory Unity tutorial covers the creation and tuning of a simple pong-like game, which consists of...
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Unity Resource: GameObjectPool
One way to improve a game’s performance in Unity3D is to avoid creating and destroying game objects, and instead activating/deactivating them. However, doing so can be a bit tricky and time...
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Unity Resource: XYController
A while back, someone asked a question on the UnityAnswers site about how to write a script that moves an object in the X/Y direction based on input from the arrow keys. I wrote a simple script in...
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Unity Resource: VelocityLimiter
One of the cool things about Unity3D is its built-in physics engine. Instead of having to manually code interactions between objects, gravitational acceleration, etc., in many cases you can just...
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Interview with Animator Broose Johnson
While at Disney, Broose Johnson worked on movies such as Oliver and Company, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, and Brother Bear. He has been a clean-up animator, a lead...
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