Procedural generation — a broad and massive topic that can seem intimidating at first, but whose fundamentals can easily be grasped and replicated. It is the algorithmic creation of data, or more simply, an automated process with a set of governing rules. You will have seen this via landmass or…

As grows the size of any system, so grows the complexity, and so the accompanying inconvenience of additions or adjustments made to it. You will find that the deeper you delve, the higher the likelihood that one small tweak can corrupt your entire structure. Complexity cannot be avoided, but it…

Over the weekend, Austin Mackrell and I wanted to try out implementing the prediction and visualization of a trajectory in 2-D before it fires. Simply put, we’re firing an object through a gravity affected scene with a certain force, and we want to predict and show the path it would…

Extending on previous RayCast2D Article… Because I will never have done enough of it, today I’d like again to stress the importance of slow, simple, and attentive debugging. Fortunately, I can stress the importance of this by illustrating the use of a few new and useful features. If you’ve grasped…

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Per usual, I spent too much time on one feature, and while I don’t have much to show for it, I feel as though understanding the feature and being able to explain it will help me down the road. On days like these, I like to think I’m investing. With…

I spent ten hours today trying to get a game object to rotate to my liking. The hours of troubleshooting spent on this one definitely feel as though they’ve caused me some brain damage. I did a ton of google searching, and I’d like to give a shout out to…

A wonderful piece of advice from GameDevHQ so far has been: if feeling any difficulty, to brute force your implementation on the first iteration of code. First things first, make your code work. You don’t have to be perfect right away. Expensive and sloppy code is better than nonoperative code…

Learning Unity in a hands-off environment can be downright exhausting. You can fully expect to spend an hour double and triple checking your code, wondering what phantom change along the way broke your entire project, only to find that a single letter was miscapitalized, sending everything into mayhem. Of course…