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John

Ello, I'm John. I’m a wholesome, loveable computer person with red blood. I used to design games for fun… but mainly cash, yeah bags of cold hard cash, sometimes hugs.

Tombola

Recreating a Tombola rotation effect in Unity. Tombola drums are roataing boxes usually used to shuffle prizes to be drawn at random.

Battle System Challenge

Battle System Challenge

I created a basic battle game consisting of two teams of four characters. Each character has a different ability. They can attack, support and have some special tactics depending on the round. The player can pick their team via a character select screen and the character they want to attack

Doom Screen Melt

Doom Screen Melt

Trying to recreate Doom's classic screen melt effect in Unity

Tanks - Update #3

Tanks - Update #3

Pillbox modelling and some Unity Destruction

Tanks - Update #2

Tanks - Update #2

The latest update in my Tanks project. Progressed a lot over the last few weeks, I'm ready to start prototyping.

Challenge - Update 1

Challenge - Update 1

Before the Christmas break, I managed to get a good start on this challenge. There is a bit too much progress for one post so I’ll break it down retrospectively as best I can. In this update, I cover model creation in Blender and touch on prototyping the controls.

WORMZ

My attempt at creating Wormz like terrain and collision.

Game Challenge

I’ve been challenged to create a complete game from scratch using Unity and Blender. How did this come about? Read on...

Brumm! Brumm!

A multi-camera racing set up using Unity's Cinemachine.

Maze

I came across a cool book on Maze algorithms and tried to create one in Unity.

Biscuit Olympics

Biscuit Olympics

Biscuits! Games! Best idea ever!

Pixel Perfect Adventures

Pixel Perfect Adventures

This is a test project I upgraded to test specific packages.

Bolt - First-Person Shooter

Bolt - First-Person Shooter

Creating a simple FPS with Bolt and writing a few automated tests.

Bolt - Instantiate Game Objects

Bolt - Instantiate Game Objects

With the click of a button, we can add game objects to the scene within a given area.

Creating a scene from concept art

Creating a scene from concept art

Trying to improve my understanding of HDRP while practising lighting. Here I try creating a 3D scene from a concept sketch.

Bubble Bobble using Unity

Bubble Bobble using Unity

A while back as a little bit of exploratory testing session i tried to create Bubble Bobble in Unity. I usually write automated tests using the test runner but always after the fact. I wanted to try Behavior Driven Development so i created this little project to help me learn.

Bolt - Input new and old

Bolt - Input new and old

Over on the Bolt Discord [https://discord.com/channels/372898201088426004/372899421681090600]server user JasonJonesLASM [http://www.lifeandstylemedia.com]has created a package that lets you use the new input system with Bolt 1.

Texture scrolling and fading with Bolt 2 & Unity Shader Graph (Part 1)

Texture scrolling and fading with Bolt 2 & Unity Shader Graph (Part 1)

I've started to learn Bolt 2 a visual scripter for Unity. In this post i use URP, Bolt 2 and Unity's shader graph to create a scrolling texture that blends over time.

Blender 2.8 Doughnut

Blender 2.8 Doughnut

Had a blast learning Blender 2.8 with BlenderGuru's updated doughnut tutorial. Check out some of the renders. I'm currently using these as my desktop backgrounds.

Scrolling UI Text

Scrolling UI Text

With a little bit of basic C# scripting we can create an effective and flexible text scroller in Unity. It can be used for about pages or game story text.