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Global Game Jam

Mike — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:40:36 +0000

Hello Everyone, I am at Global Game Jam 2012. So far, pretty crazy. Apparently there are 10,000+ people and 45 nations participating in this (making it the largest game dev event in history).

My team’s project is coming along nicely, and I figured I would drop a little teaser title here:

Well, back to work. Enjoy!

Installing the Kinect For Use With Unity in Windows

Mike — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:33:32 +0000

Hello everyone. Just a short video to walk you through installing and configuring the Microsoft Kinect. This video will get the Kinect working with the Unity Game Engine in Windows 7 (and maybe earlier, but that is untested).

Links:

http://unity3d.com/unity/download/

http://zigfu.com

Installing the Kinect on Linux or Mac? Look here: http://www.nightmarekitty.com/2011/10/28/unity-and-kinect-tutorial/

Object Oriented Game Development – Part 8

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:41:18 +0000

This post is a portion of my mini-series on Object Oriented Game Development using the Allegro 5 library. You can see all of the posts by going to http://fixbyproximity.com and clicking the “OOP Game Development” button at the top of this site.

Welcome to part 8. This video will conclude the series by adding sounds, states, and screens to our game. Thanks for watching!

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 7

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:40:20 +0000

Welcome to part 7. In this video we develop our Explosion and Background classes

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 6

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:38:51 +0000

Welcome to part 6. In this video we look at using pointers to functions to create a callback system for updating our game.

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 5

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:37:31 +0000

Welcome to part 5. In this video we develop and plug in our Comet and Bullet classes

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 4

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:34:47 +0000

Welcome to part 4. In this video we bring our SpaceShip and GameObject into main. We “install” our objects list which will act as a manager for all of our game entities.

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 3

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:33:06 +0000

Welcome to part 3. In this video we develop our SpaceShip child class. This class dictates much of the game logic and is the main entity controllable by the player

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 2

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:31:27 +0000

Welcome to part 2. In this video we develop our GameObject base class. This code will act as the base of every other object in our game

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Object Oriented Game Development – Part 1

Mike — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:26:43 +0000

Welcome to part 1. In this video we prepare our shell code and get it ready for our new OOP structure

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