‘A meandering journey through interactive design, scruffy programming, concept development and broken thinking‘
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- Pick Up and Throw – Materials, Scale and Selection Updates
After this and this recent post, the player PickUpandThrow mechanic has now been updated to address some issues including: Collisions […] - Blender to Unity 01 – Scale, UV’s and Import
This post forms part of a likely ongoing series of notes related to using Blender with Unity. Scale and Dimensions […] - Environment Lighting in Unity
I’m posting this reference to a great CG Cookie article on lighting. It covers all the basics and a few […] - Change Color on Raycast Hit
In the process of developing the RB controller, one of the functions I wanted to incorporate was highlighting objects when […] - Rigidbody Based Pick Up and Throw
As the Rigidbody version of the Player continues to develop (full functionality breakdown to follow) the concept of being able […] - Custom Colliders for RigidBodies
While making good progress developing a new RB version of the player (which I’ll post about elsewhere), I stumbled on […] - Refactoring UI Elements
I started this post with just the reference pic above almost 6 weeks ago, so I’ve been trying to remember […] - Better Referencing in Unity
After several months of development trying to keep things as simple as possible has become increasingly important. With only a […] - Elevator Prefab
After more than 2 weeks of wrestling with this idea, illness and the slaughter of more than 2500 orcs in […] - Iteration #0: feature updates (and fiddling)
After managing to deliver on my project management priorities, iteration ) of TGM47 is complete. Iteration #0 is a series […] - Animation: Curves and Immersion
This vid highlights approaches to developing procedural animations that can increase feel and immersion using curves. Many of these tips […] - Human Places, Human Spaces
This 1979 (complete with awesomely future-retro funky intro tune and graphics) film is based on William H Whyte – Street […] - Project Management
Resistance has indeed proved futile! When I first started developing tthe glitch machine B47 as a fully fledged project in […] - Player: UI Info Overlay
Solution to displaying interactable object information on `UI based on https://forum.unity.com/threads/get-ui-placed-right-over-gameobjects-head.489464/ - #glitch theory
An ongoing list of related theoretical resources - Peter Zumthar: Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
This architecturally intriguing piece is a prime candidate to explore the impact of architecture within tgmB47. The design, look and […] - Architecture in Game Design (GDC 2016)
Some interesting resources on architecture (as in buildings and space) and game design. This vid from GDC 2016 explores some […] - Conceptual Inspiration from Fantastic Voyage
I was thinking that based in the game start idea it might be an idea to source some content based […] - Player: Audio Management
After plenty of headaches with audio sources it seems that this solution is best option: It’s possible to play multiple […] - Set up a toggle button using the Input Actions Manager
Set up a toggle button using the Input Actions Manager: derived from https://forum.unity.com/threads/new-input-system-how-to-use-the-hold-interaction.605587/ - Bug Killer
Finally managed to quash those pesky bugs in player movement that had been riling me for the last week. The […] - VCS Ups and Downs
Spent more time than ideal setting up a VCS system for the project – what a nightmare – but then […] - Home Computing – a retro perspective
Whenever I think of the term ‘home computing’ I inevitably end up with a picture of this in my mind: […] - An exploration of New Media and Interface Design (2012)
INTRODUCTION The following pages are aimed at exploring my recent research into new media art with a focus on the […] - The #glitch machine B46
The glitch machine #B46 – a new media installation production. An interactive piece driven by PureData that included an Arduino […] - The #glitch machine @chapter arts, Cardiff
The #glitch machine prototype at chapter arts in Cardiff. - MOGA: Museum of Glitch Aesthetics
From the Museum of Glitch Aesthetics catalog: Whereas it’s true that the avant-garde artists and writers of the 20th […] - Where am I?
A Thought Experiment into the nature and implications of new media art. I’m sitting here which will become there. I’m […] - Projection Mapping Experiments
Using projected images that are mapped to the surface features of, for example, a building has presented me with a […] - Kinect Investigations
Microsoft Kinect Sensor and OpenNI Framework Originally known as Project Natal, the Kinect is a motion-sensing device used as a […] - “Playing” the Image
Initial Ideas: Falling out of this was the idea of “memory triggers” and if we could “play” our memories, emotions […] - Experiments with Blender and FCP
A bit of an experiment using FCP, blender and a bit of Motion.