And coding blog
Anja Haumann 
So you want to build a rhythm game. A game that has elements moving in sync with the beat of your music. I participated in the rhythm game ‘A Jesters Tale‘ at the Nementic game jam. And it turned out it’s not as easy to sync objects with music as it seems at first glance. … Read more
A Jesters Tale is a small rhythm game/RPG prototype that I had the pleasure to contribute to at the first Nementic Game Jam. The player character is a jester whose goal is to entertain the king. He will play for simple townspeople, at taverns or larger cities on his journey. I will not upload … Read more
Can you have dynamic eyes that react to the environment but at the same time use frame-by-frame animation for the body? Yes, you can do that in Unity and it’s not difficult at all. Most of the work is setting up the hierarchy of GameObjects in Unity correctly and creating the animations. The frame-by-frame animation … Read more
Problem Do you ever think “The GameObject setup is so weird, it should be documented” but then don’t do it? Or are you forced to insert components in strange places because Unity just can’t do it any other way? Keyword: Unity’s UI rendering order is influenced by the hierarchy. Most of the time it … Read more
I always liked to spend time with my dad in his electrical workshop. He is a radio engineer and built several robots with blinking LEDs for me. He hoped that I would get into engineering too. But I kind of never did, the robots he built were awesome, but I wasn’t interested in the soldering … Read more
Unity’s default gizmos are essential for visual debugging but can only be drawn in world space. This restriction can be rather annoying if you try to debug custom UI or viewport-based camera movement. A simple line at a specific pixel coordinate would solve the problem most of the time. There are two solutions to this … Read more
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