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Unity Teams Collaborate, AWS S3, and Data Driven UI - 1/13 to 1/19 - My Week In GameDev

After making significant progress on the GDD last week, this week was all about starting into the setup of the project. Step one was to get the flow and functionality of the UI defined, so I started with the Missions interface. After mocking up the UI I decided that the

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GDD Continued - 1/6 to 1/12 - My Week In GameDev

This week I kept at working on the GDD for Star Cinders. It's currently about 53 pages and still a bit rough but I'm going to give it a bit of a break in the coming week and start work on implementation. I've also

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Game Design Document - 12/30 to 1/5 - My Week In GameDev

With the start of 2018 and with my tour of courses over this week was the first dedicated to my game project Star Cinders. One thing stressed just about everywhere is the need for a game design document, as such this week was fully dedicated to document writing. What I

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Who I am, the journey so far, and what's next? - Six Month Retrospective

If you're looking for my usual quick progress reports made up of mostly gifs this is not one of those. Maybe check back next week? I want to get just a little bit serious, reflective, and personal today. Six months of daily game development, the year turning over

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Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays In 2017 - 12/16 to 12/25 - My Week In GameDev

For being called a holiday this sure has been a busy week, between frantically prepping for hosting a Christmas party, and planning for a massive technology change at work there's hardly been time for game development. Yet game development there always will be. I started getting familiar with

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A Great Resource, Some Old Resources, And Phone Charms - 12/9 to 12/15 - My Week In GameDev

This was the first week in a long time where I haven't had a class to work on, and I'm not starting production of Star Cinders until January, which was pretty nice since it meant I was able to play games again in more than superficial

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Art Course Wrap Up - 12/2 to 12/8 - My Week In GameDev

This week I wrapped up the 2D art intro course and as a result have completed the entire educational road-map! I'll post a six month retrospective of it all on 12/30/17 but in the meantime I'm going to take the holidays a bit easy

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Movement Styles - My Week In GameDev - 11/25 to 12/1

Salutations reader! This week the topic of study in the course was the use of movement and paths in animation. Specifically "Straight Ahead" style and "Pose to Pose" style. In straight ahead style we simply draw the frames one at a time in order allowing the

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Game Icons - My Week In Gamedev - 11/18 to 11/24

This week I started on my final class, The 2D Game Artist - Design Amazing Art Assets From Scratch [https://www.udemy.com/gimpforgames] which teaches the basics of 2D game art using the program GIMP [https://www.gimp.org/]. GIMP being a sort of pseudo Photoshop that is completely

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Intro to Pixel Art - Game Dev Weekly - 11/11 to 11/17

After working on game programming courses since July it was time to step out of my comfort zone and start looking into art. As a professional programmer for so many years now I know what my talent is and that is not going to change, but I wanted to get

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Little Witch RPG - Game Dev Weekly - 11/4 to 11/10

This week I finished up the final section of the GameDev.TV Unity RPG Course [https://www.udemy.com/unityrpg]! After allowing myself to spend an extra few days to polish this up I've reached a good stopping point and have uploaded the project to Itch.io for

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RPG Combat Progress - Game Dev Weekly - 10/28 to 11/3

First off before any gamedev talk let's just get out of the way that the Alliance is totally going to win the Battle for Azeroth (new WoW expansion just announced at BlizzCon). You can tell I am totally not biased based on this flag. Another week another 49

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RPG In Progress - Game Dev Weekly - 10/21 to 10/27

Salutations internet! Another week, another 45 lectures down putting the completion of this RPG Course to about 57%. The terrain/level layout is mostly final in it's structure, with probably a few little detail tweaks here and there to come. Spent some time doing optimization around adjusting the

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RPG Course Started - Game Dev Weekly - 10/14 to 10/20

This week I moved on to the next item of the road-map, the RPG Course! (which can be found here) [https://www.udemy.com/unityrpg] Initially I had some hesitation on letting this course be part of the roadmap, because if it just turned out to be things that I

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Certification Prep Course Complete! - Game Dev Weekly - 10/7 to 10/13

Salutations dear reader! This was a pretty good week as I finished up the certification preparation course, marking the point at which I'm about 60% through with my Unity training in prep for starting my own projects. If things continue at this rate I'm hoping to

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Star Cinders - Development Updates Coming Soon

I'm afraid Star Cinders is still a few months away from beginning pre-production but I'm happy to see you made it here anyways! Once work begins you'll be able to find updates on the game's development on this blog accessible either through

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Certification Prep - Game Dev Weekly - 9/30 to 10/6

Keep on powering forward was the theme this week as I progressed through another third (Lectures 52 to 88) of the preparation course for the Unity Certification exam. I started rather annoyed by this course, it felt like it was just going to be a slogging retread through everything we

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Physics Mini-Course Complete! - Game Dev Weekly - 9/23 to 9/29

This week I finished up the Physics mini-course on Udemy by Ben Tristem [https://www.udemy.com/gamephysics/learn/v4/overview] and got started on the preparation course for the official Unity certification program, but more on that in next weeks blog post. Spending the last week and a half

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Physics Course Started - Game Dev Weekly - 9/16 to 9/22

Having completed the VR Course last week I moved on to the next item on the roadmap which was to start on the Physics Course [https://www.udemy.com/gamephysics/learn/v4/overview]. It is a bit of a mini-course, even shorter than the VR Course so I imagine I

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VR Complete - Game Dev Weekly - 9/9 to 9/15

This week I am very happy to say that I've completed the VR Course on Udemy by Ben Tristem [https://www.udemy.com/vrcourse/learn/v4/overview] Here is a video example of one of the projects. There are a few slight issues such as the trucks needing

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VR Course Coming Along Nicely - Game Dev Weekly - 9/2 to 9/8

This week was lectures 55 through 79 which covered topics such as spatial audio, tile based terrain, procedural terrain, infinitely generating terrain, and using maths to make nicer feeling random values. Above is a gif of my first test within google cardboard from unity. It was pretty cool to finally

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VR Course Started - Game Dev Weekly - 8/26 to 9/1

Last week I completed the Unity Course and felt pretty accomplished about it. I didn't want to lose momentum by taking a break or anything like that so I decided to plan out the road ahead. The plan as it currently stands. * Unity Course Complete! [https://blog.valkrysa.

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Completed! UnityCourse - Game Dev Weekly - 8/19 - 8/25

Sooooo happy to say that this week, after a little less than three months of spending my after work hours going through it, I've completed the Unity Course on Udemy [https://www.udemy.com/unitycourse] by Ben Tristem [https://twitter.com/BenTristem]. Now that I've completed

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Zombies - Game Dev Weekly - 8/12 to 8/18

This week (covering Lectures 235 through 269) was a nice break from the last two weeks which were primarily all about a single topic. This time around we actually touched the terrain system instead of just putting a super wide cube as the level. All the sort of things that

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Bowl Master Complete - Game Dev Weekly - 8/5 to 8/11

This week the bowl master course (which was our introduction to 3D) wrapped up. A majority of this project turned out to be lessons on test driven development and proper architecture. They actually had us almost completely reframe everything twice throughout which actually turned out to be the right way