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Finally, the first week of work has been and gone, give or take a day or two spent on paperwork etc. coming from the relocation. Pretty happy with progress, in fact, all the 3D graphics work I did at university, combined with my programming experience means I can blitz through most of the tutorials. I even managed to get into tweaking some shaders and messing with bump-mapped sprites.

The main objective this week was to get a simple prototype working using both Android and Windows Phone platforms, which has been achieved. I've got to grips with the 2D physics engine, some of the GUI basics (although I understand the current default Unity GUI is pretty poor and going to be replaced in 4.6), materials, textures, and touch input.

The key design principle for this first prototype is that the primary user interaction is a single touch action. In this case a swipe. As you can see in the video below, the direction of the swipe designates the desired direction, and (less obviously as there isn't any visual feedback yet) the length sets the amount of thrust. Placeholder graphics are from MillionthVector.

 

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It's been over six weeks since we landed in Germany, and it's taking a while to settle in and get everything set up for me to really kick on working....to illustrate, here is the current state of my office.

Current office set up

Not cool. Still, the container is arriving tomorrow so I should have my desk and office chair finally!

 

 

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Well I have been in Duesseldorf for 4 weeks now, things are moving a little slowly, we only just got into an apartment and are still sleeping on an airbed! My desktop has arrived but I'm still waiting on the sea shipment for a desk, that and no internet connection yet means development work is on hold. Still, plenty of DIY to be done in the new place, and this city to explore, great place so far!

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Just a couple of weeks left now before the move, with most of my time being used with leaving parties, packing, and paperwork! I managed to crank out an update for Metero that will catch a crash that seemed to be happening on some phones. Going to give up on Microsoft's advertising products as they seems to just plain unreliable, a bit sad that Google do Windows Phone advertising better than Microsoft, but hey ho, I will send my feedback and let them know.

I doubt I will have another chance to update before we leave, although I do have a few articles in draft state that I am saving for a few more revisions.

See you in Düsseldorf!