Here’s a sneaky peeky at some early gameplay of my forthcoming mobile game, HerdyLand (previously known as Herd’em):
Category Archives: Games
Unity – How to make things see where they’re going
While developing a game, I wanted to enable the autonomous characters to see where they’re going – that is, to tell them what they’re about to stumble into, without using colliders. The answer was to cast a Ray, angled slightly downward, in front of the character, so it can see if it’s about to walk into a tree, or off a cliff, before it happens. Continue reading Unity – How to make things see where they’re going
Unity – Animation Blend Trees
How to create infinitely varied animation with your Unity characters.
A very powerful feature in the Unity Editor is the Blend Tree. This is an extension to an Animation Controller, which allows you to ‘blend’ the joint movements of multiple animations and control the ratio of blending with one or more parameters.
Getting started with UnitySteer
There are several AI steering libraries available for Unity, but I settled on UnitySteer due its similarity to OpenSteer for C++. Continue reading Getting started with UnitySteer
David Beckham Academy Games
Awarded: FWA winner, Adobe Site of the Day winner and IAB Creative Showcase runner-up.