My hobby workshop

Hey there,
This will be the place where I can write more about my projects.
First of my public projects is the Space shooter / racer prototype
some of my progress videos have been uploaded before to my YT channel under the Unity Games Playlist ,

From now on when I upload something new, I will try to write a log on what happened since the last time and / or any trouble I ran into

and maybe I'll add a personal part on what I had to learn to achieve it with the links of course.
thanks for reading

before this dev log :
race map is working, time is ticking, spaceship is nicely moving,
to do list:

add asteroids to background parallaxing.
add weapons
add shooting and damage
add visual shield to the ship

dev log 8.30.2015
it took me some time to find the best method since the best looking one in Blender 3D is not usable yet since it is using volumetric shading

I ended up with tilling the offset and intensity of texture

I was able to add an asteroid field based on 12 unique asteroids, they are generated randomly with random scale and rotation axis , it still needs tweeking
the Background parallaxing still has some issues, I'm planing to rewrite it.
here is the result

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Chess Mate in 2

Probably some of you know that move, it is called kids under age of 3. Well I got 2 of them and they keep me pinned down. This is the worst excuse possible, I know. Meanwhile, while not working on my own assets I tried to help others with their projects. This is the path I will be walking enjoying time with my kids; very soon they start kinder garden they grow up fast and I will not miss on the best moments of their lives. That being said, I can't promise anything new until my life offers the opportunity to work on individual projects (need to make time and space, office space that is, you can't write any code while your kids are pulling your sleeve) Probably I will not have to much to show you until this winter. If you have any supporting advice, I'm all years and eyes! As a good friend of mine would say: "We'll get on that bus when it gets here" May the digital ether keep you smiling and check back on this blog.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end." – Seneca

I don't want to be philosophical but this one suits my case. So the last few months have been extremely hard. I tried my best on testing and tweaking the space racer/shooter, but it turns out that shooting in top-down games while traveling with speed is not an enjoining experience. Not even with auto targeting systems, or heat seeking missiles, laser weapons or turret guns are 90% missing their target, and the game experience is quite frustrating! So before I turn this game into something I do not want (a big pile of mess) I decided to give it a rest, maybe come back to it later. In the last few weeks I tried to learn more about what makes a great failure a good place to begin something else. As youtubers of "Extra Credits" said "Fail Faster" So I will try to fail even faster, So I tried to read as much as possible, Special thanks to " youtubers of " Extra Credits " and to BlackShellMedia who provide awesome indie tips and ...

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door - Milton Berle

How many of you have opportunities knocking on your door day by day? For the last few weeks opportunities started knocking on my door too, and I have been asked to provide more details on my work on my blog. That was a nice surprise. I'll better start putting my work availeble to the public eye. - Where to start? Where to begin ? - Step by step, one by one! here it is

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