In this podcast Daniele Giardini and Pietro Polsinelli (myself) discuss the notions of game polish and feel. Here is the podcast: There is also a video of the podcast here: References Game Feel: the book. The game … [Read more]
A podcast & sources for (romantic) game polish and feel – DAG pod 22
14 April 2015 By Leave a Comment
Making a sport game in Unity: model & prototype
07 April 2015 By 3 Comments
I just published a video where I describe how to start modelling and developing a sport game, specifically football (soccer) in my case: In the following notes some motivation for the work and references from the video. What am I trying to … [Read more]
Unity3d: Using A* and grids for entering a football field
02 January 2015 By 1 Comment
Just played with the A* algorithm and a grid to make players enter a field and assume the initial 4-4-2 classical formation. Notice there are dumb and smart teams … [Read more]
Games we loved in 2014 – DAG pod 21
31 December 2014 By Leave a Comment
In this podcast I chat with We Are Muesli about (some of) the games we liked in 2014. We each put together a list of games and we sort of interviewed each other. … [Read more]
Beyond mechanics: games with depth – DAG pod 20
30 December 2014 By Leave a Comment
In this dreamy podcast Daniele Giardini and Pietro Polsinelli (myself) discuss the notion of depth in games. We don’t reach any definitive conclusion, but we have fun … [Read more]
Unity3d: Giving runtime prefab instances meaningful names
21 December 2014 By 3 Comments
This is a short note about a minor issue you may meet in Unity3d when you are creating scene objects in code, say from prefabs. In my case I am creating a soccer field borders on the base of a grid that may resize, so I want to create everything … [Read more]
Game Development with Unity 2D – part 6: Pixel Perfect
09 October 2014 By Leave a Comment
Here we have a nice chat with the sinful Daniele Giardini about pixel perfect in 2D games, as a form of holy perfection. We are continuing our voyage in Unity 2D development; previous trips: Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. We … [Read more]
Paper Game Jam entry: Autumn Sprint
05 October 2014 By Leave a Comment
In this game a group of players has to build a tree and its ecological environment in autumn, through a series of one minute drawing sessions. This is a really simple game that is playable with just papers, colors and a timer (in any form, … [Read more]
Urban life and happiness: People in Love
16 September 2014 By Leave a Comment
People in Love is a game about building cities where people can fall in love. Cities that are not inhabited highways, nor tools for economical and racial segregation. We hope that by playing this game some beliefs and doubts will start inhabiting … [Read more]
Prototypes and practice vs. theory
23 August 2014 By Leave a Comment
Following my own preaching about the importance of prototypes, I’ve put together a quick and dirty prototype of People in Love, a game about urban design and quality of life. Or about love. The prototype is here and I got some interesting … [Read more]
