Flash!
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I've been spending a little time running through Adobe's Stage3D and Starling APIs the last couple of days. Obviously fairly primitive compared to UE4 and Unity but it is serving a purpose dredging up the ActionScript from the memory banks! Here's a little (hardware accelerated!) dude you can move around if you have Flash enabled. It has only a VERY crude animation state machine so excuse the glitches. I'll clean it up next week.
Good exercise digging back down in the lower level stuff, took me back to the OpenGL days at uni! Now off for a couple of days so it'll probably be a tad quiet....
A few days off Unity
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I've got to take a few days away from Unity this week to concentrate on brushing up on some other technology, for reasons that may or may not become clear in a few weeks :) It's a useful distraction though, I've been getting over the pain barrier with shader programming today.
I have parked the space shooter type game for now as I'm a bit stumped how to make an interesting game of it, although it has been a great technical learning exercise so far. I've got a simple 2D physics based game I cranked out in a few hours that has some potential.
Either way my time is disappearing with all these public holidays, and I have fallen ill today which isn't ideal. Retiring to bed to continue my homework! I will be cranking out a few articles tomorrow from the now refactored and tidy Unity bits and pieces I've made so far.
Infinite Space
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Just a few updates as I've been ploughing through Unity material. Added some pew-pew to the prototype, created an object pooled 'stuff' generation mechanism so the play space is effectively infinite. Time to start concentrating on content this week!
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Easter break
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Now back in Düsseldorf after a quick trip to Basel. Some inspiring stuff, including the Odilon Redon exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, and the Kunst Museum where I picked up a great book. I've never been into graphic novels (I usually associated them with Manga or superhero themes), but I flicked through Shaun Tan's 'Ein Neues Land' (originally 'The Arrival') and had to buy it immediately, I can't recommend it enough, beautiful story, illustrations, and a great imagination at work. It's easy to relate to the main themes of the book as an expat! I've felt really inspired and have been sketching out ideas for a new project ever since! Today's rainy Easter Monday is being spent putting some of these into Unity and seeing how they look :)
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