Want the Secret to Insta-Success? Enrol in the School of Instagram
Why do some people seem to gain Instagram followers effortlessly, while others struggle to get any traction? Find the answer by enrolling in the School of Instagram. It's completely free to join, and...
View Article20 Cinematic Music Tracks to Inspire and Excite Your Next Video
Your choice of music can be everything when it comes to your video project. We've put together some of our favourite pieces, loosely categorised to make it easy for you to find what you want.Melodic...
View ArticleCreate an Animated Movie in Blender: Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingIn part two of this series on creating an animated movie in Blender, we will discuss how to properly render your scene, add sound, and prepare your video for export.Rendering...
View ArticleWhat's in a Name? Data Analysis of 5,820 Steam Games
What’s in a name? More than you’d think. Whether you’ve been working on your game for a long time or you’re just entering the planning stages, at some point you’re going to need a name. The title of a...
View ArticleCreating a Unity Game With PlayMaker
What You'll Be CreatingIn this article, I will show you how to make a game object move in five minutes or less using the PlayMaker add-on for Unity, with no code. Download UnityIf you haven't already,...
View ArticleInteractive Storytelling: Why and How We Tell Stories
Telling StoriesOne of the main activities of humankind is telling stories. We all tell stories. When we describe the day just passed to our partner over dinner, we’re telling a story. When at the pub...
View ArticleCreating Toon Water for the Web: Part 1
In my Beginner's Guide to Shaders I focused exclusively on fragment shaders, which is enough for any 2D effect and every ShaderToy example. But there's a whole category of techniques that require...
View ArticleInteractive Storytelling: Linear Storytelling
In the last article we saw where the need for storytelling comes from, which is something intrinsic to humankind, and we said that telling a story means basically to convey a messagein order to obtain...
View ArticleCreating Toon Water for the Web: Part 2
Welcome back to this three-part series on creating stylized toon water in PlayCanvas using vertex shaders. In Part 1, we covered setting up our environment and water surface. This part will cover...
View ArticleCreating Toon Water for the Web: Part 3
Welcome back to this three-part series on creating stylized toon water in PlayCanvas using vertex shaders. In Part 2 we covered buoyancy & foam lines. In this final part, we're going to apply the...
View ArticleInteractive Storytelling: Non-Linear
In this final part of our series about interactive storytelling, we'll talk about the future of storytelling in videogames.Non-Linear Interactive StorytellingOr the Philosopher's StoneNon-linear...
View ArticleHow to Create an Abstract Icon Set in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to how to create an abstract icon set in Adobe Illustrator! The theme we're working on will be chess. In this tutorial we will learn the step by step process of how to...
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