next »

[Alec]

I wanted to introduce my new project with Frederico Machuca, called "Alone in Dreams":

http://aloneindreams.tumblr.com/

The "Alone" project is both a game, and a basis for a series of Unity tutorials.

That is to say, I'll be making a series of tutorials about how the game was made, we'll be releasing some assets for people to play around with, using the assets to create examples of other games, etc.

[allen]

that's pretty cool, I saw the trailer earlier. it looks great.

the more people that learn Unity and start making their own 3d games the better.  

[John Sandoval]

Nothing particularly productive to say, just that it looks good. Animation could use some work, but I'm guessing the game is still early in development.

Best of luck!

[Chris Pavia]

Ive enjoyed your unity videos so far, looking forward to more. I'm curious if there are any tools (iTween, ragespline, etc) that have become part of your standard workflow?

Can't wait to see more of the game as well.

[Alec]

I always use iTween, its very handy. (although I think there's gotta be a way to write a lighter/simpler version of it)

For 2D, RageSpline and 2D Toolkit are very nice. (but they're not used in this particular project)

BTW Vimeo is still not a good place to be if you're making indie games:
http://aloneindreams.tumblr.com/post/11954917080/this-is-a-great-time-to-switch-away-from-vimeo-if

[Alec]

Here's a first intro vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EI4mPPoTQ

Demoing a little snippet of the game and also talking in a broad way about how some of it works, behind the scenes. In later videos I'll go into more detail, but I'm curious what things people are more interesting in learning about.

http://aloneindreams.tumblr.com/

Also: Maybe I should be posting this in tutorials or devlogs instead? :O

[Chris Pavia]

I'd like to hear about how you have your higher-level architecture set up, as in what scripts/objects control what, who's talking to who, and generally how the game's state is kept in check. I have no formal programming training so my gameplay usually ends up very hacked-in and not scaleable, so it'd be useful to see how someone else does it in Unity.

[Alec]

That sounds like a good early topic indeed.  

Alone has one global state variable, which makes things nice and tidy.

e.g. calling:

Global.state = GlobalState.Throw;

Will put the game into the ball throwing game state. (using getters and setters)

Good idear, I might even be able to do this one as a stand alone tutorial or one where you can download a project and mess around...

[Alec]

Updates!

http://aloneindreams.tumblr.com/post/13387410119/wuug-is-winnipegs-unity-user-group-we-recently

A video from our Unity user group and a pretty neat prototype to play around with.

Includes prototypin' blocks that are useful for sketching out games quickly.