We’re returning to our Mixer game with a game plan this time. The goal is to build small games that can be used almost like an interactive screen saver when you need to AFK during a live stream.

Lets explore drawing lines using the mouse in Unity. We’ll approach this in two parts. The first is to figure out how to cast a line from our camera where our mouse is.

Testing code is important. It ensures that the code you just wrote works, but more importantly it serves as documentation about exactly what your code does and ensures that after months of maintenance and changes that the code you haven’t touched in months still does what you think.

It’s time to add another layer to our Shield Shader. Projectiles are going to start causing distortions in the shield as they impact it instead of just pulsing a color along the shield.

What if we don’t want all the geometry in our scene to cause our snow to be crushed? Things like walls and buildings for example.

You walk through a snow drift or throw a grenade into it. How do you deform it so your footprints last?

Lets make a shader that lets you add cool pseudo volumetric lighting to your particle effects. Imagine putting lights inside a cloud of smoke, because Unity’s particles always face you the lighting on a standard shader can be questionable.

Sometimes things bounce. We’re going to put together a simple example of how to make projectiles do just that!

Unity 2018’s beta was released earlier today and includes a number of exciting new features. One of them is a new visual shader editor called the Shader Graph.

We have a shield shader, but how do we get it to interact with the world. More plainly: how can we shoot our shield?

Shields up! Let’s expand on our shield shader by merging our refraction shader and our existing energy shield shader together.

Lets riff on how to draw force directed graphs in Unity. A force directed graph is a directed graph that is drawn and positioned by having each node apply force to every other node.

I’ve been exploring different ways of locomotion since starting to work with the HTC Vive. This new project is an extension of that.

You use Unity’s Gizmos all the time for debugging and your app. What if you want those lines in play mode?

A 6 Degree of Freedom controller is capable of six types of movement. It can move along the X, Y and Z axis but also has Yaw, Pitch and Roll.

Midnight is a game built in 48 hours for the Asylum Jam. The asylum jam emphasizes horror without the stigma of mental illness, including the use of asylum’s, hospitals etc.

Lets set up a Vive Tracker inside of Unity 3D. HTC’s tracker gives you six degree of freedom tracking including position, yaw, pitch and roll.

Grab Passes are a really complicated and expensive way to do nothing in a shader. A Grab Pass is an additional pass added to your shader that captures the scene and allows you to use that captured texture in your shader.

Minecraft recently added the ability to export your builds as 3D models that can be uploaded to Remix 3D or opened in Paint 3D.

Lets build a custom particle emitter that can emit particles on the ground anywhere in a rectangle. This is the first step of lighting the grass in our grass renderer on fire.