Blessed by the twin dragons of Kinugawa

Your first trailer is a critical milestone that can make or break your game. And you’re very likely making and publishing it without the help of a game publisher or PR firm. But everyone will be judging it as if you had. So what can you do to maximize success?

An algorithm for real-time per-triangle occlusion in Unity. We use procedural drawing, a render texture, a tricky shader, compute buffers, and two compute kernels to check the visibility of triangles directly on the GPU.

Damping is the art of mathematical motion. Its purpose is to create a transition, over time, from one value to another. A lot of things depend on good damping. Camera, animation, movement, colors, its use is everywhere. That’s why understanding it is very important.

I strongly believe that what we used to call the Level Editor is now a Data Editor. They are many data types, and to manage them it’s quite useful to build a database system within Unity. The goal is not to replace the built-in Asset Database but to organize, manage, find and reference our data more easily. For my next project I started to build such a database using ScriptableObjects, and I will share some progress here.

We used to think about the Level Editor, the place where the level or the game was built, as the final frontier. But what a game needs is a Data Editor.

Having just built a studio for MWM I was reflecting on the various jobs of the game industry, so I made this simple data viz thinking it could help others to visualize what makes a game company.