If you’re like me and like your tab indents to use spaces rather than tabs, and you always remove the standard comments above Start and Update, then this little tips might be useful. Go to /Applications/Unity and Show Package Contents on the Unity.app. Navigate to Contents/Resources/ScriptTemplates. Here, you’ll find all the template Unity uses. Edit [...]
For the JIPPI project we made a game with a fairly standard setup with a menu that links to a couple of levels. We started off by adding functionality to the main class and then switching between update loops based on which level you’re at. This will quickly become difficult to maintain. Instead, we opted [...]
For the JIPPI project we needed to build the game so that it could be restarted without reloading the page. Killing event listeners and stopping timers would have to be done, in addition to cleaning up any modules that might be loaded on the next create() so that ImpactJS wouldn’t trigger the “Module has already [...]
As a part of the JIPPI project, we added a create/destroy function to ImpactJS. With the create function, you could pass a string to let the game know which jigsaw puzzle to load. We didn’t want the game to preload everything since the game consisted of 9 games and not all would be played during [...]
While working on the JIPPI game we needed tools for easing the development. One of the tools was a PHP script for automating generation of entities. We would get the sprite sheets from Making Waves, and then it was our job to make the entities come alive. To make this process as flexible as possible, [...]
For JIPPI I created a couple of tools to ease the development, one of them being a handy drop down menu which allowed me to open Weltmeister (from now on just W) with the config file set to a particular sub folder of the levels and entities folders. This is something I intend to make [...]
In the document Using External Version Control Systems with Unity, Unity doesn’t mention Git as an alternative. I prefer using Git for versioning and just did a test using github.com. Setting up the respository was just as easy as described in the documentation. Update April 2nd 2013: Since committing to a git repo is a bit [...]
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In AS3 there is a handy utility class called ChangeWatcher, which lives inside the mx.binding.utils package. It provides you with a handy way of watching other object’s properties. Here’s how it’s used: Object – the object which owns the property “property” – the property you want to watch handler – the function name of the [...]
A while back ago I realized the importance of variable types and code optimization. I was working on an interactive installation using an Arduino and a Mac Mini. The Mac was communicating with the Arduino through an XMLSocket and was getting data probably about one hundred times per second. The first version of the datahandler [...]
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