Helpful Tips From My Game Jam Experience

Over the weekend, I completed my first Game Jam Hackathon – Games For Our Future Game Jam Another programmer and I, with the help of an artist, created Climate Pirate! It’s a 2D action game where you control pirates that capture oil tankers to reduce the carbon footprint of mankind and save the world from …

Kingdom Hearts Series Archive

Design Articles Kingdom Hearts: What Happened to Tech Points? – An analysis of the positives and negatives of the Tech Point system in KH1. How to Design a Hard Mode: Kingdom Hearts 2 Case Study – How Critical mode in KH2 was one of the best difficulty modes ever added to the game and how the series …

Genius Design – Ratchet and Clank Weapon Upgrades

In Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, automatic weapon upgrades were introduced to the series. Weapons would gain experience as they are used to defeat enemies. When they have enough experience, they upgrade to a completely new weapon, which is better than the original in every way in most cases (except the lava gun). Weapon leveling is …

How To Connect to S3 in Unity

Let’s say you want to upload a file to AWS S3 from your Unity game. Well, if you follow the AWS instructions, you’ll probably run into errors. This guide helps you through the errors I encountered. Step 1 – Follow the Setup the AWS SDK Tutorial Notes: While importing the AWS SDK into Unity, since I only …