The Joy And Fury Of Coding Games 5

Coding Games: a collection of articles about the science and art of Game Development. Complete with the irony and self-deprecation, required to remain sane when communicating with a machine bent on doing not what you want, but what you tell it to do.
The advice would be helpful mostly for people new to game programming, while the attempts at humor would hopefully be forgiven by everyone.
7 years ago The Joy and Fury of Coding Games

Unity Personal vs Unity Plus vs Unity Pro vs Enterprise

Which Unity license should I get? A reasonable question. Unity comes in several varieties and depending on your goals, you will need a different license. Two questions arise most frequently: 1) Should I get a paid version (Unity Personal vs Unity Plus)? 2) Is it worth investing in a Pro version (Unity Plus vs Unity […]

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8 years ago The Joy and Fury of Coding Games, Unity Assets Reviews

Best Pathfinding Tools in Unity 3D

Update June 2017: Unity 5.6 comes with improved NavMeshes! They are now component-based, allowing for multiple NavMeshes per scene. In addition, procedurally generated and dynamically loaded content is now supported – just generate the level and set the NavMesh to Bake! 😉 Hey fellow game developer, what kind of games do you want to make? […]

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8 years ago The Joy and Fury of Coding Games, Unity Assets Reviews

Visual Scripting and Unity AI

Greetings, fellow coders and game designers! Today’s topic is how we can build a Unity AI inside a game by using visual scripting systems. This post is an introduction, so we’ll keep things simple. We’ll compare two powerful tools: Playmaker and Behavior Designer (follow the links for their full reviews). For Pathfinding both of them use Unity NavMesh Agents, […]

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Unity Development: MonoDevelop vs Visual Studio

If you’ve ever researched the Unity MonoDevelop vs Visual Studio controversy on the programming forums, you already know how passionate developers can be about their favorite tools. Devotional praise and heated vitriol are spilling over the keyboards 🙂 . And since a lot of the posted opinions are contradictory, a starting developer in Unity can become anxious about […]

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Unity Language Dilemma

The choice of Unity Language is one of the first decisions a new developer has to make. When I started with Unity3D I wondered myself: man, do I really need to spend time learning C#, when I already know enough JavaScript and I can just power through with UnityScript? After a couple of years, I can tell you definitively: Dear […]

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