2023-08-31: First post

First Post

This website will be used as my “Devlog” to record my progress in learning Unity and general game development techniques. My hope is that this devlog will serve as a tool to get myself in a habit of documenting my progress. i.e. For when I eventually start a devlog on itch.io.

Maybe I’ll inspire other middle aged developers to start game development!

Learned this month

1. The very basic:

   

   • Transform
   • Rigid-body
   • Mesh
   • Canvas
   • Camera (split screen)
   • Built-in recording tool

2. More basic stuff

   

   • Collision detection
   • Spawn Manger
   • Event Listener
   • Scene Manger (to reload scene)
3. How to prototype
   • Using place holder assets

   • Implement minimal mechanics such as…

     • “Meow” to make friends (purple bubble indicates range)

     • Power-up to increase range

     • “Enemy” to eat your friends
4. Deploying this website
   • Jekyll
   • Minimal Mistakes template and how to use liveReload.js
   • Configuring git.io to auto deploy Jekyll project

Next month goal

Goal	Description
Blender	Learn something about Blender
Unity	Complete Programmer 2 course.