games, programming and other musings
Inspired by Kerbal Space Program and wanting to create a simple rocket building game for my then 3 year old son, I created Rocket Constructor. Rocket Constructor is a simple modular rocket building game I developed using for my son after noticing his enjoyment of the ‘Space’ theme. I created it with Unity. To play, […]
Almost 5 years ago, I wrote a post giving a brief update on a 2D sandbox survival game I had been working on, Dropship. I still don’t have any plans on releasing this, it is purely a creative outlet for me. But, I did just revive it from my Bitbucket repository and load it up […]
I spent a couple of hours recently playing around with this top down 2D driving simulator in Unity and implemented a 2D Waypoint AI Car Driving system. It’s been put together really nicely and implements most (if not all) of the physics detailed in this great Car Physics For Games post. The only thing the […]
Long time, no post. I’ve mainly been focused on updating my other blog over at shogan.co.uk and have not dedicated much time to putting up anything over here. I tend to get small bursts of time on occasion to play around with my own ideas in Unity. This time around I created a small 3D […]
Once you’ve figured out a general process for deploying game releases, you certainly don’t want to be manually completing every step of the process every time there is a release. If you add up the time spent copying build releases, updating websites with new build information, sending out notifications or change logs, etc… that time […]
Just a quick demo this evening with around 5 minutes of game play showing some of the new features like save/load of worlds (JSON serialization), fishing, and new features relating to usable items (extending the use of Interface design), crafting and building. Full screen it!
I started working on Dropship (the temporary name for this project) back in January, when I was on holiday in South Africa. It is a 2D ‘Minecraft’ style, sandbox survival game, drawing inspiration from Minecraft and Starbound, two of my favourite survival/sandbox games. After getting back from holiday I kind of just left it in […]
In this tutorial, we’ll be covering building your very own Amazon AWS DynamoDB integrated Unity3D game. We’ll be using two public cloud based technologies provided by Amazon AWS, namely DynamoDB (a NoSQL database service), and Cognito (identity management and data synchronization). We’ll be building a character creator with Amazon DynamoDB integration in Unity3D. This will […]
I’ve been quiet for the last few months – looking after a pregnant wife, preparing for a baby, and lots of work (my normal day job) has kept me very busy, and meant I have not been able to update this blog as often as I wanted to. Now, with my son born I’ve had a […]
In Space Pillage, various bits of the game are randomly built using modular assets. One of these types are the space ship hulls / interiors you fly through (or over) in the game. This is a quick development update showing how the interior graphics are randomised and created as needed for the game. These interiors, […]