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Holiday Gaming

darren — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:37:28 +0000

Whilst on holiday I haven’t had access to my usual Unity development machine so I’ve had to look to other means to get my games coding fix. I’ve been interested in the advancements in Web technologies since my days as a Web developer so thought I’d see what I could do with the HTML 5 …

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Fetch the Shotgun Martha!

darren — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 01:57:39 +0000

Fetch the shotgun Martha! is an early first person shooter (FPS) prototype set in 1950s America during an Alien Invasion. The game is built upon Unity Standard Assets Rigidbody First Person Controller and it’s been great fun looking through the various Asset Packs in the asset store to bring the game to life. Plenty of …

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3D Space Shooter – 3D Asteroids with follow cam!

darren — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:57:12 +0000

3D Space Shooter was developed while watching through the excellent Unity Game Development Course on YouTube from BergZerg Arcade. The game features a randomly generated asteroid field that the player must search through to find and pickup glowing capsules. There is also, an ever increasing, fleet of enemy ships out to destroy you! It’s a …

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Realm Rush – A Tower Defence Game

darren — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:15:52 +0000

Just completed a tower defence game from the Complete C# Unity Game Developer 3D course. It’s been modded quite a bit to include an event system and different third party sound assets. I enjoyed this section of the course as it included more complex features such as coroutines, queues and pathfinding. The provided graphical assets …

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Play Argon Assault (early access) now!

darren — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 10:49:39 +0000

The first playable version of Argon Assault is now available here. As the pilot of the Argon Defence force, you must defend Argon from the waves of the incoming enemy pirate fleet. You’ll also find Admiral Snackbar giving you feedback along the way! Please remember that this is an early release and there’s more work …

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Argon Assault

darren — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:30:21 +0000

Argon Assault is a rail shooter, a shoot ’em up that limits players movements and follows a set course around the game world. This is the third game from the Complete C# Unity Developer 3D course on Udemy and it introduces more Unity capabilities to build on from what was learned from Project Boost.

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Project Boost!

darren — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:36:40 +0000

Project Boost was the second game produced as part of the Complete C# Unity Developer 3D course on Udemy and was actually the first 3D game I’ve ever produced. You can find the fully playable version of the game here. The aim of the game is to fly the rocket from it’s launch pad to …

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Hello world!

darren — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:34:54 +0000

So this websie is a long time in the making - a very long time really. I've been writing software since I first got my hands on a Dragon 32 in 1983 at the age of 10.Dragon 32 home computer

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