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Alex Somerville

Alex Somerville

The Highs and Lows: A Quasi-Literate Interpretation of Empathy

Living life is a fucking roller coaster. Even the simple act of existing takes you all over the place on a daily basis. You have moments…

Aug 3, 2022

Aug 3, 2022

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Homing Missiles

We can’t just rely on our ship’s laser to get the job done. This is a hostile alien fleet after all. A never-ending hostile alien fleet…

Apr 7, 2021

Unity Dev: Homing Missiles

Apr 7, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Post Processing

Everyone loves Instagram filters, right? Well why not have them on your video game?

Apr 2, 2021

Unity Dev: Post Processing

Apr 2, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: STARS!

Particles. Sweet, beautiful, generated particles.

Apr 1, 2021

Unity Dev: STARS!

Apr 1, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Moving Backgrounds

I’ve been feeling like our game environment has been feeling a bit stale lately, which is why I switched up the background in my last…

Mar 31, 2021

Unity Dev: Moving Backgrounds

Mar 31, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Logical Animations

Previously we’ve set up animations for our Powerup objects, but they’re just a set of sprites animating in a never-ending loop. That’s…

Mar 30, 2021

Unity Dev: Logical Animations

Mar 30, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Delegates & Events

We’re going to take a short break from adding new features to our game to clean up some of the existing code. When we set up the Restart…

Mar 29, 2021

Unity Dev: Delegates & Events

Mar 29, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Multiple Action Maps (New Input System)

In yesterday’s article, we added some UI to direct the player to press the “Enter” key or the Start button on a gamepad to restart the…

Mar 28, 2021

Unity Dev: Multiple Action Maps (New Input System)

Mar 28, 2021

Alex Somerville

I'm liking it quite a lot, James.

Mar 28, 2021

Mar 28, 2021

Alex Somerville

Unity Dev: Basic UI

These days, it’s up in the air whether players even want a user interface. A number of games include the option to completely hide the UI…

Mar 27, 2021

Unity Dev: Basic UI

Mar 27, 2021

Alex Somerville

Alex Somerville

On a quest to become a game developer. Still sometimes providing unsolicited advice about how to function in society.

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