Living back home with my mom is something I've tried to avoid since I was old enough to leave home. But, I'm glad I spent that time there helping any way I could, while the family was in need. Plus, my 5-year old sister got a chance to play-test Treasure Adventure Game. She quickly became a big fan and would ask me to let her play it every day. She also told me she wants to make video games when she grows up -- Awesome!
Since I've been home I finally had some time to spend working on TAG. I jumped right into where I left off: the most complex boss fight I've done yet. Luckily I was able to pick it right back up and things are going pretty smoothly so far. Progress on TAG will now continue at a steady pace, and I hope to have the game finished this fall.
I've decided that I'm going to be using Unity for my next project. I'm absolutely in love with this dev-tool. It's been a little daunting for me in the past, because I have a limited amount of experience with scripting/programming. But, over the past month I took any free-time I had to watch tutorials and read everything I could find about Unity. The absolute best tutorial series I've ever seen on the subject is by Walker Boys Studio (link). It's as detailed as a full college course and I'm convinced that once I'm done with these videos and labs I'll be ready to create my next game in Unity.
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Hello! I found my way to your site through the Indie Games Blog and I think your game looks amazing! I wanted to say thank you for providing the link to the Walker Boys Unity tutorials - I've been trying to learn Unity for awhile, and this looks like exactly the sort of structured course that I need. I just passed the first exam, and I'm excited about learning more. Thanks again!!
Cat, Thanks for your compliments on TAG. I'm glad you found the Unity tutorials useful. I agree that for a complex program like Unity a structured course works really great. Good luck on it and let me know how it goes. I'm just about to start the first lab, myself.
Hey! For C# I used this book: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-C-3-0-Jesse-Liberty/dp/0596521065/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1313548148&sr=8-13 which has some exercises built into it. I'd only gotten a really basic grasp of it, and then I got derailed for a couple of months. :) I'd always heard that Javascript and C# were really similar, so I figured it would be worth switching over to get something more structured.
Pretty much the only difference I noticed is that you don't have to declare your variable types in Java, which is nice. :)
This is one of maybe 3 games (the other 2 being commercial studio games) that I'm looking forward too, great work!
What language are you making TAG in? Just curious. I'm guessing Java.
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