In C#, one error puts fear, confusion, and frustration into the heart of every developer, especially beginners: NullReferenceException. It will look like this in your Unity console, and it will cause your game to not work. In case that screenshot isn’t clear, it reads: NullReferenceException. Object reference not set to an instance of an object … Read moreFix Null Reference Exceptions
In this dev blog, I like to tell little stories about the development process rather than focus on the progress of my game. I hope this gives readers a peek inside the world of making a game. In the course of making a video game, features come and go. In this article, I discuss two … Read moreThe Making of Mouse Dreams Part 4: A Tale of Two Mechanics
Here is a timelapse video I made of building a level in my game Mouse Dreams. It’s sped up (otherwise it would be very long and boring), and this level was already designed on paper before I started building it in the Unity editor. You can see how the layout was tweaked and improved as … Read moreDesigning a Mouse Dreams Level Timelapse
Since I work on my games as an amateur, I don’t have a budget. I work on the assumption that I will probably not make back any of the money I spend on my games, so I consider all costs carefully.My game, Mouse Dreams, has more graphics and animation than anything I had done before, … Read moreThe Making of Mouse Dreams Part 3: A Whole Game’s Art for $100
This is a short ‘Making of’ for my first Unity game, Game of Clowns. Background Game of Clowns is a physics puzzle game in the tradition of Amazing Alex and The Incredible Machine. It’s my second game, but my first made in Unity. I was totally new to Unity and C# when I embarked on making this game. A … Read moreThe Making of Game of Clowns
Following on from my previous article explaining drag-and-drop functionality, I’d like to show you how to implement ‘snapping’ objects to a specific place, such as a Scrabble grid: How does it work? We will create a simple Scrabble/Words with Friends demo, with a few tiles that can be dragged onto a board grid, so we’ll: … Read moreWord Game Drag-and-Snap
Unity’s LineRenderer component gives you the ability to draw lines with multiple segments. You can use this to draw anything line based, like a rope or a finger drawing. This tutorial is for intermediate users: I will expect you to know your way around Unity reasonably well and understand basic code without explanation. Please see … Read moreDrawing Lines with LineRenderer
You can use Unity’s RenderTexture functionality to create some cool effects, and in this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an in-game security camera that projects a camera’s view onto an in-game TV screen. What is a Render Texture? A Render Texture is a texture you can draw onto, and then use like any … Read moreIn-Game Security Camera using Render Texture