Happy New 2022! | Update
Greetings Reader! Seeing as we are into yet another year, I’d like to start by wishing you a Happy 2022! I didn’t blog much in 2021, I had difficulty finding the time. Well, maybe not time – but the motivation. 2022 will mark my 50th year on Earth – half a goddam century! And it seems the older I get, the harder it is to decide what it is I need to focus on. Problems arise – be it on the house, or the car, and those become top priority... Read The Rest →
2021 FEB | Game Project Update
Greetings reader! I hope 2021 is shaping up to be a good year for you so far. I had a productive January & February both with my home repairs and the game project I am working on. Lockdown has enabled me to do a lot of work on my game engine, so there’s a fair bit in this update. Game Dev Update In my last post, I was intending to make a start on some level mapping. You could drive around the test levels okay and collect things, but I... Read The Rest →
2021 | HAPPY NEW YEAR
Well, we made it to 2021! Happy New Year! I think it’s probably customary for people to do a New Year blog entry. One that is full of optimism for the year ahead. 2020 sure turned out to be one turd of a year, didn’t it? Who would have thought this time last year, that it would be quite normal to walk into your local Tesco dressed like Bane. It’s amazing how quickly we adapt. Christmas was a little different for us, as we were in a new house in... Read The Rest →
Dev Blog #2 | Making Level Art
Greetings Reader, Well, I managed to finish my second planned game development ‘Sprint’ – a two week run creating video game art for my project. It’s my second block of work adhering to Scrum principles. I wasn’t sure if ‘Scrum for One’ would work – but so far it seems to be helping me stay productive. The daily meetings with myself are a bit awkward though 🙂 I felt motivated right the way through the Sprint and – unusually – didn’t get distracted by ‘The Worlds Biggest Explosion’ videos on... Read The Rest →
Dev Blog #1: Scrum of One | Toggl Plan
If you managed to read through my last entry and stay awake to the end, you might have read that I intended to start doing video dev blogs for this project. Well, I’m going to put that off for a bit until my workroom/office looks a bit better. Right now it looks like the set of ‘George & Mildred’ from the 1970s, complete with anaglypta wallpaper and brown carpets (I just moved in!) Also, the boiler is in here and sounds like a Raptor Engine on takeoff when it fires... Read The Rest →
House Move and other stuff…
It’s been a long time in the planning, but we have finally moved house. We sold our home of 20 years and moved 50 miles away to a small village in South Lincolnshire (hence the pic of the Red Arrows above – who are based here). It’s been a total change – away from friends, family and all the things you take for granted. But so far, things are shaping up well. It’s our first detached house, and we’re still getting used to the freedom that brings. Knowing that you... Read The Rest →
2020 Update
Okay, so it’s been 4 years since I wrote a blog entry on my website. FOUR YEARS. I’m surprised to see that my crusty old site has retained a steady flow of visitors. Like me, it’s started to show it’s age. And I apologise for this tiny font – the WordPress theme explodes if I try to change it. According to Google Analytics, the most visited pages are the long-obsolete TIPS & TUTORIALS. In 2020, it seems people are still trying to work out how to add a rule-of-thirds grid... Read The Rest →
3D Pool Update
I’ve had a few inquiries asking how my 3D Pool game is going. So, I thought I’d put together a brief update. At time of writing, I haven’t done any work on the engine for around 6 months. I’ve been working on other projects – some computer related, some photography related – so unfortunately it’s now been relegated to ‘back burner’ status (along with a bunch of other Unity stuff I was working on). I decided to dig out the 3D Pool source code over the weekend to see what... Read The Rest →
Unity5 Upgrade: One step forward, twenty steps back…
Back to Unity5! Well, it’s been a few months since I did any development work. I had to get out there and earn some cash to fund my game development work. I was contracted to create the artwork for a match-3 video game (“Dr Popper”). I did some data management for a large corporation. And, as a bit of a change, did some commercial gardening! Which certainly beat sitting behind a desk for 8 hours. Back when I made my last Unity related post, I had decided to migrate my... Read The Rest →
Reskinning A Game
Flaming June ..and it’s flaming cold, again. Don’t you just love the weather in the UK! 🙂 I haven’t had chance to update my blog lately – things have been a bit chaotic for me both at home and at work. I’ve had to put my Unity 3D Pool game on hold in order to raise some much needed funds. For the first time in 23 years I’ve been doing proper job – one that (sadly) doesn’t involve the creation of spaceships. I’ve been working for a company called Pearson... Read The Rest →
