First in a series of posts that reprints the unedited manuscript, No-Code VR Development Using Unity and Playmaker. Chapter 1: What is Unity and What Makes it Awesome? The history of video game development is relatively short yet decidedly dramatic. In turn borne of revolutionary technology and revolutionizing technology, its history has at times been… Read More »
2016 was a mixed bag. On the downside we lost Bowie, Prince, Muhammad Ali. Also I got cancer. On the plus side, I published my first game development book, was contracted for a second, and then again a third. Also I got cancer. That a cancer diagnosis could possibly improve my life is a grim… Read More »
For a transcript of today’s broadcast… scroll down. //Update: There’s actually an easier way in the latest version of Unity. Once you download Standard Assets from the Unity Store and Import them, add Assets>Standard Assets>CrossPlatformInput>DualTouchControls to the Scene! If you need to upgrade, be sure to back up your Project as a Package, Include Dependencies.… Read More »
A student of my No-Code course at Udemy, Maynard, has very graciously created this testimonial video! 🙂 No-code Video Game Development with Unity3d and Playmaker teaches you how to create a modest FPS horror-survival video game without ever having to write a single line of code! By leveraging the powerful new technology of State Machines,… Read More »
This is actually a lesson, not a tutorial. But for the word “lesson” there are no opportunities for day-related alliteration. So… This is a presentation I gave at a SUNY symposium. It’s all about how evolution devised play as a mechanism for initializing and promoting desired behaviors. Eagle-eyed observers will note that there are gaps… Read More »
It’s one of those perennial questions making the rounds in #gamedev circles. Everyone wants to know; can you make a living doing what you love? The asking is more puzzling than the answer; not because it is particularly perplexing but because it is pointedly pedestrian. It’s been asked a million times of a million different… Read More »
