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Make a fully functional calculator in Unity not only for VR, Addendum

In the addendum to a three-part tutorial series, we will be modifying the foundation of our solution to create an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator.

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Make a fully functional calculator in Unity not only for VR, Part III

In the third, and also the last part of this tutorial series, we're going to adjust our fully functional calculator we've build in the part I and part II for a VR environment.

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Make a fully functional calculator in Unity not only for VR, Part II

In the second part, we're going to make our calculator fully functional, by building tokenizer, recursive descent parser and a foundation for Abstract Syntax Tree.

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Make a fully functional calculator in Unity not only for VR, Part I

The first part of the three-part tutorial of how to build a fully functional calculator prefab in Unity not only for VR games. In this part you will learn how to animate a button press using coroutines, how to work with Unity events, and utilize TextMesh Pro.

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How to make AI sentient in Unity, Part II

In the second, and final, part of the miniseries about AI senses, I'm going to guide you through an implementation of reactive AI behavior for patrolling between selected points, chasing a player when it's seen, and investigating a location player has been heard on.

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How to make AI sentient in Unity, Part I

In the first of two parts miniseries about AI senses, I'm going to guide you through an implementation of eyes and ears for NPCs, that takes advantage of inheritance and UnityEvents. In the subsequent part, I'll show you how to create some reactive behaviors using the state pattern.

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Turning Laser Defender into My First Attempt at a Full Game (Pt. 1)

In this post Nick shares his experience of creating his first full game, and the lessons he learnt on the way.

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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

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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.

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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

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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.

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RPG Crafting System

This crafting system was created by me, Adir Baron, with knowledge from the RPG Combat and Inventory courses. The system uses most of the already existing functionalities in the RPG

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Triggering World Animations In Unity Timeline To Tell Stories

How do AAA games make their worlds feel alive and interesting, even if all the player is doing is walking down the street? They consider their worlds as living entities,

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The Unity Prefab Waterfall

A place for everything, everything in its place. Benjamin Franklin That’s why we care about this technique, because otherwise without it we duplicate things in Unity – a lot. Then… * We lose track of our project. * Bugs appear everywhere. * Builds swell to device-breaking sizes.

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What's Your Procrastination Pattern And Why Do You Do It?

Why do we sometimes procrastinate? You know, those times that we avoid getting things done. Why is it that at times we just cant ignore our distractions? The short-term excitement

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How To Come Up With New Game Design Ideas For Your Game

Want to be a better game designer? Want to create more interesting games? If so, then lets discuss the Single-Attribute-Exploration-And-Expansion Technique… or, worded slightly less crappily, “Edgecraft” (as coined by

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