Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Making the Future Present Through Rez Infinite
TGDF notes from Tetsuya Mizuguchi's talk on Rez Infinite, synesthesia, VR, music, and interactive experience design.
Blog archive
Technical notes archive.
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Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: The Art Direction of Detention
TGDF notes from Red Candle Games' talk on Detention's art direction, visual tone, historical references, and production constraints.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Postmortem on What Went Right and Wrong
TGDF notes from Monkey Potion's postmortem on team decisions, production mistakes, and lessons from shipping independent games.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Lanota Development Experience
TGDF notes from Noxy Games on Lanota's development process, rhythm game design, production limits, and independent team decisions.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Game AI and Level Difficulty
TGDF notes on game AI, difficulty curves, evaluation methods, and how designers can think about player challenge.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Creating 3D Japanese Animation Quality in a Small Indie Studio
TGDF notes from Route 59 Games on producing a 3D Japanese animation look with a small independent team.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Finding a Path in a Crowded Market
TGDF notes on operating Dungeon Story overseas, reading the market, choosing a niche, and surviving in crowded mobile game categories.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Survival Rules for Game Software Engineers
TGDF notes from Rayark's talk on the habits, responsibilities, and tradeoffs of game software engineers.
Conference
2017 TGDF Notes: Visual Design Notes from Qubot
TGDF notes from Qubit Games on the visual creation of Qubot, including pixel art, visual hierarchy, and production choices.
Conference / Unity
2017 Unity Developer Conference Notes
A pointer to my GitBook notes from the 2017 Unity Developer Conference.
Shader / Unity
Learning Unity Shader (1): Beginner Setup
A beginner note on Unity Shader basics, the CPU-to-GPU rendering pipeline, and the structure of a Shader program.
Tool / Unity
Client DataBase: A Local Data Table System
A Unity tool for reading planner-authored Excel tables and generating matching code plus ScriptableObject assets.
GameJam
Fukushima & Faust Game Jam 2016 Thoughts
A first Game Jam postmortem from Fukushima & Faust 2016, covering short-cycle collaboration, team roles, Unity work, and what I learned from the process.
UGUI / Unity
Unity UGUI Implementation (1): A UI Manager for Opening, Closing, Showing, and Hiding UI
A practical Unity UGUI UI Manager example for opening, closing, showing, hiding, and organizing UI screens.
Fast / Unity
Rapid Development Tips (2): Editing Multiple Objects Efficiently
A Unity editor workflow for selecting many objects and applying repetitive UI or component changes without doing the same work by hand.
Fast / Unity
Rapid Development Tips (1): Automated Script Generation
A Unity editor workflow for generating repetitive script templates once a project's coding conventions are stable.
UGUI / Unity
Unity UGUI Principles (5): Auto Layout
A Unity UGUI note explaining Auto Layout architecture, Layout Element sizing, Horizontal and Vertical Layout Groups, Grid Layout Group, and Content Size Fitter.
UGUI / Unity
Unity UGUI Principles (4): EventSystem, Events, and Input
A Unity UGUI note covering EventSystem, input modules, raycasters, event interfaces, and the flow behind UI interaction.
UGUI / Unity
Unity UGUI Principles (3): RectTransform
A Unity UGUI note explaining RectTransform, anchors, pivot behavior, Blueprint Mode, and Raw Edit Mode.
Tool / Unity
An Engineer's Toolbox (4): Recommended Free Unity Plugins
A practical list of free Unity Asset Store tools for tweening, screenshots, sprite sorting, mobile logs, pathfinding, camera effects, 2D layout, and script generation.
Tool / Unity
An Engineer's Toolbox (3): Unity Editor Tools
A collection of Unity editor tools for AssetBundle inspection, prefab workflows, object search, UGUI operations, scene switching, and hierarchy display helpers.
UGUI / Unity
Unity UGUI Principles (2): Canvas Scaler and UI Scaling
A breakdown of Unity Canvas Scaler modes, Pixels Per Unit, Reference Pixels Per Unit, Scale Factor, and how Canvas size changes with screen resolution.
UGUI / Unity
Unity UGUI Principles (1): Canvas Rendering Mode
A practical overview of Unity UGUI Canvas render modes and when each mode fits.
Tool / Unity
An Engineer's Toolbox (2): Singleton and Debug Filtering
A practical Unity note on using Singleton helpers for shared data and Debug filtering to keep release builds clean.
Tool / Unity
An Engineer's Toolbox (1): Utility.cs Convenience Helpers
A small Unity utility class for common operations such as instantiating objects, loading resources, formatting values, and reducing repeated code.