Tokyo VR Arcade
During my first visit to Japan this spring, I took the chance of visiting Bandai Namco’s “VR Zone – Project i can” Virtual Reality test arcade. This a prototype arcade featuring six VR experiences. Note:…
SteamQuest & Kha.Vr
SteamQuest is the demo game for Kha.Vr, the extension to Kha (http://tech.ktxsoftware.com/) that allows the creation of VR games. There will be more information here in the coming days, so check back if you want…
Gear VR Development
After my iPhone ended up looking like this: and my frustration with Apple, iTunes & co. reached a new height, I decided it was time to get a new phone. And since I had been…
Game AI: Doom
Last week, as part of the lecture “Game Technology” at TU Darmstadt, I gave a lecture on game AI. My focus in game development was not squarely on game AI before, so some of the…
Slides from my AdventureX talk
I have participated for the first time in this year’s AdventureX event in London, and presented my point & click adventure game, Cargo, there. It was a very nice event, I loved the feedback everyone was…
Making Games
Ludum Dare Postmortem: A-Maze-Thing
“A Maze Thing” was the first game jam project I have worked on. It was part of Ludum Dare 27, with the…
Game Impressions
Technobabylon
Technobabylon is an "escape the room" adventure game made by James Dearden a.k.a. Technocrat.
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Pre-rendered backgrounds in Unity (2/2) – Rendering
In the previous part of this post, we looked at synchronizing the camera settings between Blender and Unity so that they render objects in the same perspective. In this post, we build upon this to result to render the Unity objects into the pre-rendered background.…
Pre-rendered backgrounds in Unity (1/2) – Synchronization
This is the first part of a short series on realizing pre-rendered backgrounds with live-rendered 3D objects in the foreground, that are composited into the image correctly at runtime. Many of my favourite adventure games, including my all-time favourite The Longest Journey as well as…
Self-building Structures
This post is part three of three in the post series on my re-implementation of the GDC talk “The Inner Workings of Fortnite’s Shader Based Procedural Animations”. For the other parts, click here. This shader one is definitely the most involved of the three in the presentation.…
Bounce Effect
This post is part two in the post series on my re-implementation of the GDC talk “The Inner Workings of Fortnite’s Shader Based Procedural Animations”. For the other parts, click here. The second shader implemented is the shaders for bounce effects. The idea is that the…
Stylized Culling
This post is part one in the post series on my re-implementation of the GDC talk “The Inner Workings of Fortnite’s Shader Based Procedural Animations”. For the other parts, click here. Above, you can find an export for the web player. It features a set of…
Re-Implementing “The Inner Workings of Fortnite’s Shader Based Procedural Animations”
After attending GDC Europe last year, I was able to rummage through the treasure that is the GDC Vault for a while ;-) I came across a presentation by Jonathan Lindquist, technical artist at Epic games, who talked about how they did stylized animation for…