story Building a Dream - Part One Our plan was to legitimize Catch Light Interactive as a legal entity, and then build a working prototype of our game. A demo of our concept to show potential contributors and investors that we were serious about developing a game and bringing it to the market.
Unity My game development story: How to fail hard and dust yourself off Late 2015 “Ha! It’s moving! It’s bloody moving!” I shout to nobody in particular. “What’s moving?” my wife asks, popping her head into my study. I stand
Unity How To - Basic Inventory in Unity (Part 1) An inventory system can be tricky to achieve, especially if you are a beginner, so, for those of you that keep scratching their heads, here’s a tutorial on how to create not one, but two types of inventories.
How I went from zero to making a trending Steam game about L.S.D. in less than a year BACKGROUND April 2020. The world is shocked due to the outburst of the Corona Virus pandemic. Many Countries have imposed a generalised lockdown in order to prevent the spread of
Data Persistence in Unity without using PlayerPrefs class If you've been using Unity for a while there's a high chance you've already used PlayerPrefs class to store data persistently across different game runs. In this post, I'd like to share with you a different solution.
Unity How to - Basic Pause System in Unity Having trouble creating a Unity pause menu? GameDev.tv Unity student and forum Master Problem Solver, Miguel, is here to help! Creating a Pause menu is one of those things
story Unexpected Journey to Game Dev: How I Knew Nothing about Coding 1.5 Year Ago to Landing a Publisher’s Deal to Release my First Game on Steam Read how Chris stumbled on his passion in the game dev craft, and went on to publish his first game BACKGROUND In June 2019, I handed in my resignation letter,
Creating an Open-World Space Game This is the journey of how 'Worlds Of The Future' became what it is today, and how we plan to keep pushing the limits of the game we love. In doing so we hope to bring you along for the journey.
RPG Creating an InventoryItem Editor Part 4 It's time to make our first real Action, and finally put that Tooltip Preview in our editor!
unreal How to import problematic models in Unreal Engine 4 In this post, I'm going to show you how to use Blender 2.8 to prepare almost any model so it could be conveniently imported to Unreal Engine and also how to create a material from provided textures.
Power Leveling with GameDev.tv My first experience with GameDev.tv was back in early 2018 at a small Starbucks down in Jacksonville, Florida.--With a lot of free-time and nowhere to spend it, I finally decided to explore game development.
Don't Ever Give Up! You've probably been told, your whole life through, that you shouldn't quit. Well I'm going to tell you the same thing again! Don't ever give up! When I was just
blender Blender Basics Challenge #2: Creating a Shield Model Following on from the last challenge, this time we’re thinking of a shield design with some added features of our own. Last time we created a sword to use
unreal Accessing Unreal Engine Marketplace on Linux Unreal Engine has enjoyed Linux support and is a first class member of their platform family. But the main roadblock comes when needing to use the Epic Games Launcher, that
RPG Creating an InventoryItem Editor Part 3 This is the third post in my series on creating an InventoryItem Editor in Unity that will edit any child of InventoryItem. If you're not caught up, you can read
game art Learning to Draw - How to Start for Complete Beginners Regardless of whether you're a complete beginner or looking for creative inspiration, we'll show you how to draw using basic shapes.
story A story about having two kids, a full-time job, no game development experience and selling a game in 14 months during a pandemic. Read about how Mike Capozzi utilized GameDev.tv to learn about game development and overcome challenges to release and sell Mystic Hammer.
RPG Creating an InventoryItem Editor Part 2 In this section, we're going to deal with the issue of how the editor can edit any child without having to know all the details of each child. We're going to do this by taking advantage of an important principle in C# and OOP in general, called Inheritance.
coding Creating an InventoryItem EditorWindow This series of blog posts will be devoted to the creation of an InventoryItem editor, using some of the skills taught in the first section of the RPG: Dialogues and Questing 2 course. It relies on the code taught in the RPG:Inventory Systems course.
blender Blender Basics Challenge #1: Creating a Simple Weapon Sometimes it’s good to start with the basics, and weapons are useful ways to help you learn. Models do not need to be complex or detailed in order to be effective: all you need is a real-world reference to begin.
indie games How I went from knowing nothing about making games to publishing one on Steam, in 18 months. Read Kirt's journey from knowing nothing about making games to publishing his first one on Steam, in just 18 months.
coding Intro to Lambda Expressions II (C++) Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed our last excursion into lambda expressions. I was looking at my personal code archive where I learned how to write lambdas and I realized that there was a really important bridge to understand how lambdas work, and so
event Game jams: tips for beginners, from a beginner Game jams can be seen as events that are only for people who already have the skills to build a game from scratch. Depending on the theme and the type
coding Rotating and Zooming Camera in an RPG using Unity's Cinemachine One of the most requested features students ask for while taking the RPG course is how to implement a rotating camera. While going through the course myself, once we reached
