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Cardboard Millennium Falcon
Why drop $160 for Hasbro’s Millennium Falcon when you can build your own? Supplies Used: Studioscale’s Millennium Falcon blueprints Scissors Compass String (for drawing large circles) X-Acto knife...
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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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Announcing…Langman
I’m applying the final spit and polish to Langman, my new word-based puzzle/platformer. You can play it here. Feedback is welcome.
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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 Trailer
I’ve posted a trailer for Langman on youtube. Click here to play the game.
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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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This Little Babe
Merry Christmas from von Lehe Creative. This Little Babe Words by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) Music by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) This little Babe so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan’s fold; All...
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Zlatoosk and the Snowglobe
Zlatoosk the Terrible, god of war and llamas, was in a foul mood. He cursed the thieves who had stolen him from the king’s grave. He cursed the merchant who had imprisoned him in a...
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Mountain Village Sketch
I copied this sketch a few years ago from a book about the Dutch masters. I don’t remember the name of the book or the artist, but I do remember he sketched the original while traveling in Italy. I’m...
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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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