The DigiPen Institute of Technology has reached out to let us know about their “online masterclass” series intended to keep you learning while keeping you safe at home. For a $5 fee benefitting Hopelink, anyone can join in on the following upcoming sessions. The first one is Saturday! The Animation Industry at a Glance Saturday,…
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We took a hilarious turn for the ridiculous here and I could not be more pleased. With some reasonably technical work done in the Graph Editor during the animation test, I wanted to take a break and do something a bit simpler that I have more experience with: texturing! I love doing simple models with…
I do love it when a plan comes together. To test out my newly optimized enemy model with Inverse Kinematics, I wanted to do a little animation test with a video or gif of some sort. You may remember this as the way Epic Games got in so much trouble with Fortnite. Anyway, I thought…
Since we’re keeping it simple with the animated enemies in this project, I briefly thought I could achieve everything I wanted to do with simple bone rotation keyframes–this looked bad, took too much effort, and was just wrong. My first couple of test poses were easy with simple rotation keyframes, but I thought it would…
This post should be short and sweet. It’s about an issue that took up just enough time to talk about it. As I mentioned before, I’m happily charging into new territory by creating animations for a character in Blender, importing that animated character into Unity, then utilizing that animated character in my game. Needless to…
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http://media.blubrry.com/gamedevbreakdown/p/audio.voxnest.com/stream/3f0dde127c4a49dbbdb5dbe295347d0c/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/721869793-user-782123614-a-tale-of-tutorials.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify | RSS | More Welcome back! This time on GameDev Breakdown we’re discussing the finer points of tutorials in games, and yes, whether or not they even have a rightful place in them….
This post was originally published at Zam.com in 2016. As products of the computer hardware industry, video game consoles inherit a finite life span ending in certain obsolescence. Since 1972, about 150 home gaming systems have been released in the United States alone, nearly all of which have been commercially retired. Sadly, player loyalty often…
http://media.blubrry.com/gamedevbreakdown/p/audio.voxnest.com/stream/3f0dde127c4a49dbbdb5dbe295347d0c/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/716725693-user-782123614-creating-a-prototype.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify | RSS | More This time on GameDev Breakdown, as promised, Todd runs through his prototyping process, start to finish. This episode makes heavy mention of this post. Todd’s game design document template…