Category: Unity

I just got the 1st rough draft of the American football character from Chris! I spent today revamping the animation system so each character will default to a standard set of animations, but I can go in and make customizations where needed.  “But” someone, somewhere might ask, “Why not...

I just finished writing code for sprite-based text in unity. Since the game is low-fi, I wanted the font to be somewhat legit. Here’s the font I created for the old XNA version of the game: And here’s it rendering in Sportsball I created a simple class that will...

Work continues on Sportsball here at the studio (aka a spare room in my house). I’ve been working with Chris on putting in some rough animations, and already they are making a huge difference. So far we have Mr. Hockeyman animated with some test coloring: Astute readers will notice something...

Back when Sportsball was a humble XNA prototype, I had assumed the physics would be really basic. Mainly because I didn’t want to write a whole physics engine. Now that I’m writing the game in Unity, that problem is taken care of in the most fancy-pants way possible. That is...

Announcing Sportsball Sportsball is a game concept I’ve been working on and off for 5 years. I was making XNA games back in 2009 through about 2011 for fun. Then I got a job at a game company and all that got put on hold. Here’s a snippet of what the fateful game...

First off, sorry that it has been a while since I blogged. But here’s what I’ve been up to: Designing and prototyping Trying get trademark stuff in motion Banging my head against the wall with all this controller support mischief. As I mentioned last time, I had been playing with...

I did some experimenting with the InControl Unity plugin, which appears to work as advertised. What doesn’t work very reliably is Unity itself. I ran into issues of controllers being registered and not receiving input, and an issue where one controller was reported twice. So far the general solution seems...

Hey, another blog! Starting my own gig is a full palette of challenges, and blogging about it is one small one. What’s been going on with Tipping Goat? I’ve been trying to get a hold of a law-talking-guy, but he never called me back. I wish I had better advice...