Launch Delayed

To everyone wanting to get their hands on this game last year, I am sorry.  There is no good excuse for the delay but here

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George Rowland

Simple AI

This week I started implementing the simplest of AI opponents. This implementation turned out to be more complicated than I had imagined. We will take

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George Rowland

The Probability Of Randomness

In my previous post, I talked about the dropping of materials from asteroids. I was using Unity’s Random.value to determine the type to drop and

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George Rowland

Object creation the easy way

Or is it… This is a continuation down the refactoring road after I played my initial build on a mobile device. As you may recall,

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George Rowland

Physics are expensive

Last week we talked about the issues I created for my mobile processor by using overly complicated mesh collider geometry. This week we will look

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George Rowland

The Resource Dilemma

So far I have been developing and testing on my PC. I dev on a Mac with a 4.2 GHz processor and 64 GB ram.

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George Rowland

The Basics

This week I have completed the game mechanics for moving and shooting Asteroids, dropping materials, and collecting cargo. This is the easy part!!! From here

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George Rowland

Space Quest

This is the start of our journey through the development of Space Quest, a multiplayer 2D shooter. Through this blog, I will discuss the hurdles