This month’s topic is Unreal Engine. This discussion is for those who are already familiar with game development, but new to making games with Unreal Engine. Levi D. Smith covers the things that he “wish he had known” before starting with the Unreal Editor.

Knoxville Game Design is a discussion of games currently being created by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.

Show Notes

• Booth at Knoxville Gaming Convention – CreepyCon in August 2018 – https://www.knoxvillegamingconvention.com/
• Ludum Dare Kickoff + Podcast – August 10 – https://ldjam.com/
• Unity Graphics tips – https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-list-10663597
• Unity liquid shader – https://www.patreon.com/posts/quick-game-art-18245226
• Unity shader tutorials – https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/flow/texture-distortion/
• Unreal Dev Grants – https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-announces-1-million-in-unreal-dev-grants
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

This month Dylan Wolf tells us about the built-in options for Unity UI text, including TextMeshPro’s support for sprite fonts and icons.

Knoxville Game Design is a discussion of games currently being created by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.

Show Notes

• Khufu’s Delivery Service on Steam – https://store.steampowered.com/app/652310/Khufus_Delivery_Service
• Knoxville Gaming Convention – https://www.knoxvillegamingconvention.com/
• Microsoft buys GitHub – https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
• Golf scores web app by Wally McClure – https://golfeventscores.azurewebsites.net/PublicScores/Default
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Unity UI Text presentation as a downloadable ZIP file – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PjeguR7WMcamFavbK-JLyqLT1DTpWs_M/view

Unity UI Text blog post on Dylan’s site – https://www.dylanwolf.com/2018/05/04/four-ways-to-handle-ui-text-in-unity/

Jacob and Levi show off the games created by Knoxville developers for Ludum Dare 41.

Knoxville Game Design is a discussion of games currently being created by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.

Show Notes

• CodeTankLabs is hiring Unity developers – https://twitter.com/MantaMay/status/988753425499377665
• Unity discontinues MonoDevelop support – https://codeburst.io/unity-to-discontinue-support-for-monodevelop-in-its-new-version-release-6a7cfeda1fa5
• What’s New in Unity 2018.1 – https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-2018.1.0
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

An overview of Human Computer Interaction topics and how those concepts can be applied to games.  Topics include short term memory, long term memory, reaction times, input methods, and feedback methods.  Comparison of human languages and computer langues, along with lexical scanning and grammars.

Knoxville Game Design is a discussion of games currently being created by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.

Show Notes

• Dylan’s LINQPad talk at Codestock will be at 2:15pm on Friday April 20, 2018 – https://portal.codestock.org/home/schedule
• Join us for the Ludum Dare kickoff on April 20, 2018 at 7pm Token Game Tavern – http://tokenrestaurant.com/
• Text Mesh Pro – https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/beta-projects/textmesh-pro-84126
• 2D Game Kit – https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/2d-game-kit-107098
• Tutorial for 2D Game Kit – https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/2d-game-kit/
• Douglas Engelbart – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
• Fitt’s Law – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts’s_law
• J.C.R. Licklider – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider
• Vannevar Bush, Memex – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
• Ivan Sutherland, Sketchpad – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3saviItTI
• Rote learning – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning
• Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman – https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654
• Affordance – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
• Cognitive walkthrough – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_walkthrough
• Cocktail party effect – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
• GOMS – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS
• Keystroke level model – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke-level_model
• Cognitive Complexity – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_complexity
• Prosody – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)
• Flex and Bison Introduction – https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/flex-bison/9780596805418/ch01.html
• Backus-Naur Form – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Dylan Wolf (www.dylanwolf.com) presents “Saving and Loading Game Data in Unity”

This month we discuss two cross-platform methods for saving and loading game data (such as preferences, high scores, progress, etc.) in Unity.

Knoxville Game Design is a discussion of games currently being created by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.

Meeting Links

• • Next Ludum Dare kickoff is April 20, 2018 at Token Game Tavern – http://tokenrestaurant.com/
  • Vector Conference (Richmond, Kentucky) – http://vectorconf.com/
  • Codestock – http://codestock.org/
  • Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

This month we have show and tell from Jacob and Joe.  For the two year anniversary of the podcast, we recap the history of Knoxville Game Design.

Discussion of games currently being created by game developers in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area, as well as an analysis of current topics in the gaming industry.

Meeting Links

• • Khufu’s Delivery Service on Steam – http://store.steampowered.com/app/652310/Khufus_Delivery_Service/
  • C.H.E.S.S. gameplay – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ef6hnMnRck
  • Turn Back the Clocks 4 Dream Build Play Entry – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/dream-build-play/game/586
  • Knoxville Game Design Facebook Group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/251913638211178/
  • History of Knoxville Game Design – http://www.knoxgamedesign.org/458/january-8-2017-meetup-a-new-direction/
  • Interview with Chaosoft Games – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVR_JthEiw
  • MetroPulse features Knoxville Game Design – http://levidsmith.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/metropulse.pdf
  • Codestock Game Jam Panel 2016 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDF8At1iztM
  • Dylan’s Game Development for Fun slides from Momocon 2017 – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zOCNeRwQLaD_z1yO0H3TjfXvl54kvgCQ_5-kxBZI0Ck
  • Knoxville Game Design Directory – http://www.knoxgamedesign.org/directory/
  • Acquisition Funnel Article – https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisZukowski/20180206/314371/Why_people_dont_buy_your_game.php
  • Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster