Having a thorough appreciation and enjoyment of sci-fi / space themed games means that creating “spacey” skybox assets for Unity is quite an enjoyable process for me. I currently have four or five different skybox assets on the Unity asset store, and I believe this one comes in as my sixth. This one is currently … Read more
I recently had a nice, month long holiday in South Africa. Apart from affording me some well deserved downtime and a “castaway-like” beard, this meant I was also able to get quite a lot done on my re-working of “Cosmosis” (my original iPhone/iOS app) using the Unity engine. This time the game will be developed … Read more
Being quite busy at work meant that I didn’t really have any time to prepare a team or attend the Global Game Jam (14) this year, so I decided to “unofficially” participate from home. I used Unity3D (Unity2D to be precise) as my engine of choice, and created a very basic runner game. Being a … Read more
Cosmosis, the original shmup for iOS I created my first 2D space shooter (shmup) called Cosmosis in Objective-C using cocos2d-iphone a few years back. The game didn’t feature much with regard to individual sprite animation though. Since recently getting acquainted with Unity3D, I decided to recreate Cosmosis using this excellent tool. This decision was even … Read more
Recently, in my day to day job I have been doing a lot of automation and customisation using JetBrains’ TeamCity product, specifically around automated project builds, unit testing, installer builds and installer updates. One process I recently created a custom build step for on our TeamCity server, was to create an updater configuration file for … Read more
Recently I started toying with the idea of creating some of my own PowerShell cmdlets from scratch. I followed some MS documentation and soon had a basic version of “Get-Process” implemented, as well as my own “Stop-Process” cmdlet. Next in my sights is to create a few cmdlets that can interface with vSphere – ala … Read more
Over the past weeks I have been putting a bit of time into developing a space sim / game with Unity 3D. Space and science fiction fascinates me and is always something I enjoy working on, or interacting with. When it comes to developing games, it is always the first thing I think about when … Read more
I have been working with Unity more and more in my spare time lately, and found that with my love of space and all things sci-fi, my direction has naturally moved to working on a small space sim prototype. With that, came the idea of creating my own custom skyboxes. I figured out the process … Read more
After a period of little activity (moving house + renovations), I have finally got back to game development in my spare time. I decided to take a look at Unity, and Jumper is the result of my “first go” using this framework. This is my “August” entry for One Game a Month (1GAM)! You can … Read more
Unity is an entire ecosystem based around game development. I have known about it for quite some time, but until recently have not really had a good look at it. After downloading and installing the free version of Unity (free, with a slightly limited feature set), I must say that I am very impressed. Everything you … Read more