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Friday, 7 August 2020

Dabbling in Unity

So I decided to try some game programming in Unity¹.

Unity is a crossplatform game engine with scripting in C#.

Now, as I cannot design graphical assets to save my life, I decided to buy some off the shelve ones, and free ones, and see how far I can get.

So, this blog post is basically for me, to remember what kind of things I used/needed or might possibly use/need.

Tutorials

ConceptArtEmpire - Best Unity 3D Game Design Tutorials & Video Courses For Beginners: https://conceptartempire.com/unity-3d-tutorials/

Graphical Assets

Unity Asset Store - Nature Starter Kit 2 (free): https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/nature-starter-kit-2-52977
Unity Asset Store - RPG Medieval Kingdom Kit (see Beffio): https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/rpg-medieval-kingdom-kit-118468
Unity Asset Store - Bitgem (see BitGem): https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/1299
Unity Asset Store - Rocks and stones: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/landscapes/rocks-and-stones-hand-painted-154735
Unity Asset Store - Modular Fantasy Town: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/modular-fantasy-town-90075
Beffio - Game Assets Development by Beffio: https://www.beffio.com/
BitGem - Low Poly 3D Models & Hand Painted Textures for Game Dev: https://shop.bitgem3d.com/
AZURE nature: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/azure-nature-167725

Plugins

Unity Asset Store - DoozyUI: Complete UI Management System: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/doozyui-complete-ui-management-system-138361
Unity Asset Store - RPG & MMO UI 5: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/gui/rpg-mmo-ui-5-95223
Cinemachine (free): https://unity.com/unity/features/editor/art-and-design/cinemachine

References

[1] Wikipedia - Unity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)

Thursday, 23 July 2015

Professional Scrum Developer I

Well, I managed to get my certification for Professional Scrum Developer on Thursday, the 16th of July 2015. Wasn't terribly hard.

References

Scrum.org: https://www.scrum.org/
PSD I Assessment: https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Professional-Scrum-Developer-Assessments/PSD-I-Assessment
Professional Scrum Developer I Certification List: https://www.scrum.org/Assessments/Certification-Lists?AssessmentName=PSD%20I

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

"if it hurts, do it more often."

I recently came across the phrase "if it hurts, do it more often."¹ on the website of Martin Fowler.

Now, this might not be appropriate to, for example, slamming your hand into a car door, but it does have its uses, for example, in sports.

Personally, I think it is one of the defining characteristics of humans versus animals, that humans can suffer through a bad cause (pain/hardship/uncomfortableness) if they know the effect later is appropriately good. In other words, humans have the ability to reason about causality³, usually with a perception of time.

Unfortunately, sometimes the animal instincts prove stronger.

Continuous Integration

The soundbite in the title comes straight out of the realm of Continuous Integration².

I came across the sentence, as I was wrestling with a problem at work. We have several branches, which are specific to certain of our customers. An often heard complaint nowadays is that these are so called 'Long-lived branches'. Now, the more I consider it, the more I think long-lived branches are a pretty bad idea.

The complaint I hear most often is that some of our software developers are spending more time merging changes to the different branches and keeping them in sync and retesting, than actually developing new software.

I just thought I'd put down some references (see [4] and [5]) on how to get rid of long-lived branches, and keep everything in the main branch. I don't feel sanguine about convincing management, though.

References

[1] Martin Fowler - Frequency Reduces Difficulty: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.html
[2] Wikipedia - Continuous Integration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
[3] Causality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
Lean into the pain: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dalio
[4] Martin Fowler - Feature Branch: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html
[5] Martin Fowler - Branch by Abstraction: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BranchByAbstraction.html