I saw a cool gif of some animated flames the other day and wondered if I’d be able to recreate something similar in Unity3D. I’ve been using particle effects for almost everything up until now because I’m terrible at writing shaders but I thought I’d see what I could do. So here’s my less than …
So so so excited to have been invited to show Jettomero at Double Fine’s Day of the Devs event on November 5 this year. Not only is it going to be some great exposure for the game and an opportunity to get some good hands-on feedback, I’m also going to be surround by tons of …
Yes, I know I spelled ‘laser’ wrong. But that’s just how I spell lazer because Z is a cool futuristic letter and lazers are also cool and futuristic. Anyway… I’m going to outline a couple techniques I used to produce this lazer vision effect in Jettomero using Unity3D’s line renderer component. Ignoring the fact that …
I’ve been able to get most things working reasonably well in Unity3D, but this is one obstacle I’ve run up against that I haven’t been able to find an effective solution for yet. The issue? With a sun sitting right in the middle of my scene I need a point light in order to shine …
Here’s a quick overview of how I managed my idle camera movement for Jettomero. I really enjoy spending a lot of time of camera behaviour to get things feeling natural and effective at motivating gameplay. To capture that ‘giant monster’ movie feel I wanted to have a constant drifting of the camera – almost as …
Here’s a quick look at a useful trick for using the Shuriken Particle System in Unity3D to quickly make procedural arrangements of static elements. I was playing with the idea of rings around planets when someone on twitter suggested an asteroid belt around the planets. This was an appealing idea so I considered how to …
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Hi, here’s another quick demo of some C# code I wrote for Jettomero in Unity3D. I was just adding some new functionality to my music system and needed to be able to transition volume levels on a given audio source. This is simple to accommodate using a coroutine and I can pass an Audio Source and …
Hello, this is the first of what I hope will be a series of development logs documenting some of the process in creating my projects. Some of the posts may be specific to certain applications and others may just be rants on broader game dev subjects. This particular log outlines a system that I set …
With things being in early development for over a year now it was time to finally give a name to the project. Although I can’t say too much else yet about exactly what to expect – the game finally has an official title. Jettomero: Hero of the Universe.
While eagerly anticipating the launch of No Man’s Sky this summer, I decided to try out a game concept that has been waiting in the oven for several years now. The premise: explore a space system with real-time warp travel. Trips between planets can take anywhere between six minutes to a couple days (although the …
