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
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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.
David Beckham Academy Games
FWA winner, Adobe Site of the Day winner and Creative Showcase runner-up.
Super Kickups returns
Addictive as crack… apparently 🙂
Out now for Android >
I decided to relaunch one of my classic old web games as a mobile app. I picked Super Kickups since I thought the game mechanic works nicely on a touchscreen. Continue reading Super Kickups returns
Mind control
Here’s one of my old games being controlled with brainwaves in a homebrew EEG device cobbled together by Italian Hacker Mastro Gippo: