A Bestiary of Alternative Game Controllers
Many game developers are suspicious about alternative controllers, believing that since they can’t be easily mass produced, they are useless. Well, this is the story of how an Arduino got me to San...
View ArticleRecreational Maths in Python
This post is for all the developers and mathematicians out there that are curious to explore and visualize the bizarre properties of numbers. Although Maths plays an important role in today’s...
View ArticleInteractive Graphs in the Browser
Having worked both as a teacher and an artist, I know how important data visualisation is. This tutorial will teach you to create interactive network graphs with Python and JavaScript. You can have a...
View ArticleGameBarcode: A Study of Colours in Games
This tutorial shows how to download videos from YouTube and to process their frames with Python. I have used this technique to create game barcodes, images created by sorting the colours in each frame...
View ArticleHow to Write Native Plugins for Unity
Unity has the ability to import pieces of code written (and compiled) in other languages; they are called Native Plugins, and this tutorial will teach you how to build them. Step 1: Creating a C++...
View ArticleImpossible Geometry: Non-Euclidean Cubes
This tutorial will teach you how to create non-euclidean cubes in Unity, giving the illusion that each face is a door onto another dimension. This post is part of a series of tutorials on impossible...
View ArticleMake Your Own Emoji Portrait
This form allows to create emoji portraits and moisacs from any picture. Use the sliders to customise the size and angle of the emojis. When you're happy, right click on the image to save it. The rest...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Hidden Features of Python
Python aims to be an elegant and expressive language; this post includes its top 5 hidden features: List slicing For…else syntax Yield statement Multiple assignments Argument unpacking The term hidden...
View ArticleArrays & shaders: heatmaps in Unity
This tutorial explains how to pass arrays to shaders in Unity. This feature has been present for a long time, but is mostly undocumented. Unity 5.4.0 Beta 1 will introduce a proper API to pass arrays...
View ArticleGPU Sorting
You can read the full series here: Part 1. GPU Sorting Part 2. GPU Sorting You can find a link to download the Unity source code at the end of this tutorial. Introduction In the previous part of this...
View ArticleInverse Kinematics in 2D – Part 2
You can read the rest of this online course here: Part 1. Inverse Kinematics in 2D: The Mathematics Part 2. Inverse Kinematics in 2D: The Code Introduction In the previous part of this series, we have...
View ArticleVertex and fragment shaders in Unity3D
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, [download the Unity3D package] The previous three posts of this tutorial have introduced surface shaders and how they can be used to specify physical properties...
View ArticleScreen shaders and image effects in Unity3D
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, [download the Unity3D package] If you are using Unity3D you may be familiar with image effects. They are scripts which, once attached to a camera, alter its...
View ArticleHow to Snap to Grid in Unity3D
Despite Unity3D being such an advanced framework, I am sometimes puzzled by its lack of basic features. Especially when working with 2D games, the lack of a proper snap to grid option is simply crazy....
View ArticleEnum, Flags and bitwise operators
If you’re a game developer chances are you’re familiar with the need to describe different variations of an attribute. Whether it’s the type of an attack (melee, ice, fire, poison, …) or the state of...
View ArticleExtension methods in C#
Following the heritage of C++, C# comes with a number of powerful features which can either be used to massively improve your code …or to make it completely unreadable. In this post we’ll discuss a...
View ArticleHow to hack any IR remote controller
If you haven’t heard of Air Swimmers before, you probably had a miserable life. Air Swimmers are inflatable foil balloons made in the shape of fish. But what makes them really awesome is the fact that...
View ArticleA practical tutorial to hack (and protect) Unity games
If there’s a term which is often misunderstood, that’s for sure hacking. When it refers to softwares, it usually gets a negative connotation which smells of piracy and copyright infringements. This...
View ArticleInteractive Graphs in the Browser
Having worked both as a teacher and an artist, I know how important data visualisation is. This tutorial will teach you to create interactive network graphs with Python and JavaScript. You can have a...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Hidden Features of Python
Python aims to be an elegant and expressive language; this post includes its top 5 hidden features: List slicing For…else syntax Yield statement Multiple assignments Argument unpacking The term hidden...
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