And coding blog
Anja Haumann 
One evening when I was engaged in playing D&D with my friends I realized that we had a hard time remembering the names of the characters and cities we encountered. And it would enhance our experience if we knew them and not fall back to asking our game master all the time. The idea … Read more
Unity’s random seems like a straightforward to use and easily accessible function. It is helpful when dealing with procedural generation and AI behavior because the seed can be fixed to repeat the behavior. So it seems. But this is not always the case. UnityEngine.Random can case intricate timing bugs. These bugs are hard to track … Read more
GDD is the abbreviation for game design document. The GDD is written and maintained by the game designer. It describes all game features in detail and is the go-to document for the development team. Sometimes it is also used as the basis for a publisher contract because it states all features that will be implemented. … Read more
If you build a game in Unity you will need a few UI screens to guide your player. The number of canvases will increase with the complexity and size of your project. The canvases and the UI graphics will start to clutter your scene view because canvases are not moveable. This leads to … Read more
I will show two examples of custom editors I implemented in production to enhance our workflow with generated data. The examples are from the game ‘Space Shop VR‘. It is about a shop in space that sells different items to aliens. The clue is that all aliens speak different languages and the VR player must … Read more
Won the Pädagogischer Medienpreis 2022 (educational award). Nominated for ‘Best Mobile Game’ at the Deutscher Entwickler Preis 2021. A collaboration with publisher United Soft Media. Puzzle adventure for iOS and Android, based on the award-winning EXIT – The Game® board game series. Genre: Puzzle Platform: Mobile – Android/iOS Artstil: 2D with … Read more
Converting between the different coordinate systems of the Unity UI can be the key to a lot of cool custom UI and input features. You can basically convert every point in all coordinate spaces available with a few simple math functions. There are three different spaces: Screen Space This is the space in which … Read more
A mobile adaption of the classic Memory® game by Ravensburger. Genre: Puzzle Platform: Mobile (android, ios) Artstil: 3D Engine: Unity 3D Year: 2020 Duration: 5 month My Part: Complete UI and menus Device orientation handling Screen fitting of 3D elements Card layouts Music system The family game memory® has thrilled players … Read more
The digital adaption of the board game Ubongo for Nintendo Switch. Genre: Puzzle Platform: Nintendo Switch – exclusive Artstil: 2D Engine: Unity 3D Core Team: Producer 2 Game Designer Technical Artist 2 Programmer 3 Artist Sound and Music Designer Year: 2019-2020 Duration: 4 month My Part: Ubongo-board generation UI and … Read more
Lately, you see a lot of blog posts and news about mixed reality. This reminded me that I wrote a scientific paper about mixed reality in university (30.11.2017). It’s about the requirements of mixed reality games with an unknown environment for the game design. The German title is ‘Game Design: Anforderungen von Mixed Reality mit … Read more