So I finally figured out a huge performance bottleneck on the android platform that would freeze the entire game when the probes entered the screen. I was writing what I thought was a really clever implementation to have prefabs or transforms loaded via code directly as opposed to be attached to a behavior script, which…

New release of Conflicademia updated tweaking the swiping input so that the consumer of the swipe event can choose to process on a number of different attributes, such as total distance swiped or speed of swipe. After the changes were completed, it seems that swapping weapons on the phone platform are much more intuitive. Additionally,…

While swiping is still work in progress, we’ve now implemented a simple particle effect explosion when destroying crates or killing aliens. A lot of work was poured into the swiping, but it’s a tricky thing to get perfected. I think back on the days of street fighter vs pretty much all the other fighting games.…

So now that world control is available, I’m focusing on user input enhance gameplay. Besides guiding the ship around there needs to be controls to enable firing or disable… perhaps for levels with shrapnel mine fields that you don’t want to pew pew cause they cause more harm then good or for other effects. I…

The world selector is now finally something to be proud of. There is a smooth camera animation when the world is selected and something that I’m relatively happy with for navigating what levels to play. There will be some added touches to it for improvement, but it’s good now. Next I want to finish up…

Well, I’ve finally found someone who seems to be as passionate as I am to work on Conflicademia! He’s already added his first feature, an image extension to the dialog to depict the narrator and enthusiastically moving on. I’ve made a few more enhancements to the level selector. I finally got my idea on how…

Logic for handling taps and also using mouse clicks for debugging on my desktop are complete. I also tweaked the code to move from the main menu to the world selector to the scene. It’s crude and doesn’t handle various inputs, but it’s enough to get the point across and test that the input manager…

So I’m trying to make progress on my level selector and now I need the user input to select the various worlds to propagate the event to pick a level. So I found various examples of how to transfer the camera point to a 3d Ray, then to do the Raycasting in which it should…

So while I’m super pumped on game development I decided to start working on the level selector, from which you could select planets to travel to and from. I figured I would need to display some sort of textured sphere, have a mechanism that lets you select the planet you want to go to and…