“LINQPad Cookbook” slides and samples from CodeStock 2018
Here are the slides and sample code from my presentation “LINQPad Cookbook” at CodeStock 2018. (Sample code should contain test data and all necessary DLLs.) Slides (Google Slides) Sample scripts (zip)
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Four ways to handle UI text in Unity
While converting some old 2D Toolkit-based Unity code to plain vanilla Unity recently, I ran into a conundrum: Unity’s got great support for standard font formats, but still isn’t quite up to par with...
View ArticleUsing a Kindle Fire as a demo device for gamedevs
I’ve been readying my demos for the Knox Game Design booth at the Knoxville Gaming Convention, which includes setting up some new demo tablets. Having used a Kindle Fire for demos a before, I feel like...
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Stupid Unity UI Navigation Tricks
A few months back, I played around with (yet again) rebuilding a half-finished Metroidvania-style game I’ve played around with off and on over the years. One of my goals in this experiment was to use...
View ArticleUpcoming Panels (April 2019)
Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, Nashville, TN, April 19-21 The Joy of Game Development: (Sunday, 10am, Panel A/Two Rivers) To demystify the process of game development, we’ll walk through the...
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Ludum Dare 46: Procedurally generating potted plants in Unity
For Ludum Dare 46, I created a very simple tamagotchi game called “Potted Plant Simulator” in Unity (you can find the code here). We kicked around this idea for “Keep it Alive” at the Knox Game Design...
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RPG Maker VX Ace Ruby scripting crash course
Ludum Dare 37 was the first time I’d really, truly built a finished product in RPG Maker rather than tinkering, and I learned a lot. Given that RPG Maker scripting doesn’t seem to be a well-known topic...
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RPG Maker VX Ace scripting: Thinking through a UI change
My last post was basically an info dump on what I’d learned about RPG Maker Ruby scripting during Ludum Dare 37. From the comments I got on it, I realized “info dump” is not an exaggeration–it’s...
View ArticleAdding bookmarks to PDFs with .NET
Over the last year or so, I’ve been working up some of my TTRPG adventure notes into PDFs that I’ve released on DMs Guild, DriveThruRPG, and itch.io. Homebrewery is a pretty nice entry-level approach...
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