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  • BONE PLAIN

    I made an idle game called BONE PLAIN recently. It’s a bit…bare-bones. But it’s about collecting and stacking.

  • Foolproof Unity Saving

    The title is a bit hyperbolic, because we are all fools. But here is the flexible, ironclad JSON saving method I’ve been using for Vapor Trails.

  • 3D to Pixel Art

    There are many techniques out there for rendering 3D objects as pixel art. It usually looks very bad. I’ve developed my own method.

  • Blender Reference

    Blender cheat sheet for my own personal reference.

  • Procedural Water

    How to generate pseudo-3D water with a noise texture and some color ramps

  • Ghost AI for Vapor Trails

    Fast, reactive AI with a short training time

  • Designing Space for Violence

    How to make a good Trouble in Terrorist Town level

  • Hammer Modeling

    This is not about how to use Hammer itself. This is about how to efficiently model levels.

  • Practical Shaders: Wind-blown Leaves

    In this post, we’ll write a fragment shader to animate leaves in Unity. I’m assuming familiarity with light vector math.

  • Basic Skeletal Animation in Unity

    I’m very lazy and dislike hand-animating. This is a problem in game development, so I have a workaround.

  • THE JUICE

    Ok so we’ve got this punch. Arm goes out, arm comes back in. Basic punch. Looks bad! How do we fix it?