Unity development

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Feb 172021
 

So, I started looking into Unity development. Thereby combining my development skills (which I have plenty, in total 30+ years of experience) and creating graphics.

I created a simplified (understatement) version of Angry Birds by following this tutorial. As an extra, I created a simple start screen. See me playing the game and actually sucking at it. But hey, I didn’t do any level optimization yet, so it is not as easy as it seems.

The monsters only die (for now) when I hit them, or when a crate falls straight on top of them, or at a maximum angle of 45 degrees.

The game was created in a couple of hours. Almost everything is new, except of course the C# language.

Old dog learning new tricks

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May 082020
 

In these “Stay at home” times (you are staying at home, right?) your old dog SwitchBL8 is trying to learn new tricks. Unreal Engine 4.25 and inevitably Blender 2.82 tricks, that is. There’s a ton of free learning material for these free tools (that’s two occurrences of the word free in one sentence!), but I would like to emphasize the two Youtube channels I’m using the most.

For Unreal Engine I’m currently following the excellent tutorials made by Virtus Learning, voiced by the friendly Luke.

For Blender I’m liking the tutorials from Blender Guru a lot. Andrew, a guy with a great smile, and excellent Blender knowledge, creating tutorial videos that are easy to follow.

Like I did, subscribe to both if you’re new to the tools and need tutorials that are free, good and easy to follow.

Now let’s grab a donut and some coffee, while I set this monkey on fire!

Suzanne on fire
Poor Suzanne!