Everyone that’s used Unity for even a small amount of time has probably noticed that it exhibits Transform floating point precision errors in certain situations. This is when your GameObject’s Transform had nice round integers for position, rotation, and scale just a second ago… and suddenly the values look like 0.99999 or 7.528331e-05. This will[…]
I was recently fortunate enough to attend Unite 2015 in Boston. I was even more fortunate to be one of the 300 or so developers there to score what Google was giving away at Unite – a Project Tango dev kit and a Durovis Dive 7 headset. Mobile VR with positional tracking is a pretty[…]
I’ve been playing with the new uGUI system that was introduced in Unity v4.6 and I’ve gotta say, I love it. I’ve been a fan of NGUI as my go-to UI solution for years now and wasn’t going to switch without good reason. Well, I found plenty of reasons… and I plan to retire NGUI[…]
I suspect that many other developers would disagree with me, but I have used the Unity 3D game engine to develop non-game apps (like Kiduoso – First Words) and have been very happy with the decision. This is my story of researching cross-platform mobile app frameworks and why I ultimately chose Unity as the foundation[…]
I’ve been working on a mobile app that involves recording audio via microphone input and then playing back that audio. As part of that I’ve been experimenting with how Unity handles sample rates. I wanted to investigate optimizing the audio filesize and also make sure there were no conflicts between mic sample rate, audio file[…]
I recently had a desire to develop some traditional 2D games. Mind you, not 2.5D games where 3D characters only move in 2 dimensions, but true 2D games with 2D sprites for graphics. The problem I faced was that my game development tool of choice was Unity 3D. Note the “3D” on the end of[…]
Well, my 2nd Ludum Dare has come and gone. I decided to do a little mini post-mortem of my experience. Hope this is interesting or useful to someone else out there! First, here’s a list of everything I used to make the game: Game Engine/Language: Unity 4.2, MonoDevelop, C# (~350 lines of code written) Version[…]
I was one of the Kickstarter backers for the new Ouya. In spite of all the negative press it has gotten I have been very pleased with my Ouya. Sure things could’ve been smoother, faster, more complete, better, etc., but I’d say they delivered on their promises. I also think the problems are largely fixable[…]
If you are a gameplay programmer, you are the conduit between design and programming. You are the person walking the thin line between the fantasy dreams of every designer and the harsh technical realities of what your target platform, game engine, and human resources can provide. You play a critical role in the development of[…]