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Feb 10, 2022

Magnetism in Unity Made Easy!

Objective: “Simulate” magnetism in Unity for use as a Game Mechanic or an educational piece that looks cool Game Development is all about smoke and mirrors. Although these look like magnets I’m sure a physicist is cringing at how inaccurate the simulation is and how “original” the code for it…

Gamedev

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Magnetism in Unity Made Easy!
Magnetism in Unity Made Easy!
Gamedev

5 min read


Aug 15, 2021

How to Sync Actions with Audio in Unity

It’s certainly been a while since you’ve heard from me so I’ll just jump right into it. Objective: Sync material emission with music in Unity Breakdown: Return some kind of value that we can use to determine heights in the audio clip as it plays in the scene Perform…

Gamedev

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How to Sync Actions with Audio in Unity
How to Sync Actions with Audio in Unity
Gamedev

5 min read


Jun 20, 2021

Publishing Your Game On Itch.io

Goal: Publish our game onto itch.io! It’s actually much easier than you’d think! It does not take take very long to publish something itch.io at all! Personally, for small projects like this I prefer to make an HTML5 build so that anyone who happens upon my games can play them…

Gamedevhq

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Publishing Your Game On Itch.io
Publishing Your Game On Itch.io
Gamedevhq

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Jun 12, 2021

Fast World Space Health Bars Without A Canvas

Goal: Quickly create a working healthbar without using a canvas It’s been a while since I did a programming tip so here’s a quick and easy way to set up World Space health bars using Sprites instead of the canvas. Here’s how it looks:

Unity

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Fast World Space Health Bars Without A Canvas
Fast World Space Health Bars Without A Canvas
Unity

3 min read


Jun 11, 2021

Have A Lower End Machine Like I Do? Here’s A Tip To Boost Editor Performance

Here’s a quick tip that a friend of mine told me when I first started working in Unity. If you’re on a lower end machine like mine then you may notice some lag spikes while working in the editor. Specifically when you’re working in 3D. …

Unity

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Have A Lower End Machine Like I Do? Here’s A Tip To Boost Editor Performance
Have A Lower End Machine Like I Do? Here’s A Tip To Boost Editor Performance
Unity

2 min read


Jun 10, 2021

Can’t Have a Space Game Without Giant Beams, Am I Right?

For the purposes of this article I’ll be going over the creation of the beam itself. There are several ways to implement how it causes damage, but I want to keep this one short because VFX has a surprisingly amount of details in it. I created the sprite for the…

Gamedev

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Can’t Have a Space Game Without Giant Beams, Am I Right?
Can’t Have a Space Game Without Giant Beams, Am I Right?
Gamedev

6 min read


Jun 4, 2021

Creating a Simple Afterimage Effect For Your Sprite in Unity

Goal: Create an afterimage in order to allow the player to follow high speed movement/accent the movement of an entity Before we get started, I want to point a very important distinction for creating VFX for Games rather than Film. For games, the proper term is technically Realtime VFX rather…

Unity

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Creating a Simple Afterimage Effect For Your Sprite in Unity
Creating a Simple Afterimage Effect For Your Sprite in Unity
Unity

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May 28, 2021

Manipulating Your Materials In Unity Via Code

If you’re anything like me than you probably want to keep your Assets folder as clean as can be. One of the most annoying things for me is to create an entirely new file for a small change on an object like, creating an entirely new material just for a…

Game Development

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Manipulating Your Materials In Unity Via Code
Manipulating Your Materials In Unity Via Code
Game Development

4 min read


May 26, 2021

How to Visualize a Danger Zone in Unity + New Enemy Type!

I mainly come from a programming background so a lot of the time I prefer to visualize my effects through code instead of Unity’s built animation tools. Especially for simple things like the Danger Zone displayed here. So now, how does it work? Just like always we must first breakdown…

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How to Visualize a Danger Zone in Unity + New Enemy Type!
How to Visualize a Danger Zone in Unity + New Enemy Type!

4 min read


May 24, 2021

Ricochet Laser in Unity as a New Weapon Type

This might be a bit of a longer one so I’ll just get right into it. First things first, we need to determine the logic of the laser so we can translate that into code. So let’s break down what we need it to do step by step. When player…

Unity

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Ricochet Laser in Unity as a New Weapon Type
Ricochet Laser in Unity as a New Weapon Type
Unity

5 min read

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