This question came from a friend, and I ended up writing such an extensive answer that I figured I’d post it here for easier reading. This is simplifying things a bit, but there are two different types of creative ventures,…
For the last few months, like most of the world, my mental health has been a mess. Panic attacks and anxiety flaring up for the first time in years. Depression and hopelessness making it hard to accomplish anything. It’s been…
We knew going into 2020, that this was going to be a year of change for us. We started seriously prototyping some games. We started streaming more. We started this YouTube channel. … little did we know what 2020 had…
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We’re not the only ones who get locomotion motion sickness in VR! https://twitter.com/tipatat/status/1277721491182780416 And then we discussed some VR hacks:VR Tunneling Techniques to prevent motion sickness in VR (Used in Google Earth when moves around) – https://github.com/sigtrapgames/VrTunnellingPro-Unityand Fixed Foveated Rendering,…
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This week, we discuss different toolkits that help with VR and AR development, and more of the Oculus Quest VR experiences we’ve tried! Free open-source webXR clone of Beat Saber: moonrider.xyzOur cooking channel: youtube.com/sushidaytv An Update on the Evolution of…
A really quick tip for those of you using Unity… How many times have you forgotten to stop your game when you’re in the middle of developing, or wonder why nothing’s working then realize it’s not in play mode? Well…
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We have our Oculus Quest! If you missed the PS5 announcement stream, you can find the VoD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/647985596 Elixir was the first experience we tried on the Quest, and we loved it: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3793077684043441/ We’re starting to look into VR…
I’ve always wanted to… … write a book … be a dancer … film videos … make art … develop a game … … … … but… Just do the thing. But I’m not good enough yet. You’re right. You’re…
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Our new Oculus Quest is here! What should we download? In this episode, we started by talking about Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Dev Days.You can find the keynote video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVAXyiR3LYAnd after we recorded, links to all the other talks were…
We’re just over three months into our YouTube channel, and have just barely clawed our way past 100 subs (at the time of writing, we’re currently at 119). This has been simultaneously easier, but also more difficult, than we went…
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Welcome to the very first episode of the eXcess Reality podcast! To start off with some exciting news… we were finally able to order an Oculus Quest! We’ve just passed the one year anniversary of the release of the Oculus…
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Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast and video series, eXcess Reality! First things first – who are we, and why are we doing this? My name is Allison, and I’m joined by Son, my husband. (No he’s…
In January, we made a game prototype on our Twitch stream. In February, I wrote a devlog about our game. In March, we finally finished the video for the devlog! If you haven’t yet, check out all three – and…
In January, @phuson and I set out to make a game about an arm. An ArmPG, if you will. The Game Imagine that you are an arm. A disembodied arm. (The game isn’t nearly so gory as it sounds, I…
On the tenth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… what does “PR” mean? what’s a branching strategy, what’s this gitignore thing,push-ing, pull-ing, diff-ing,what is SSH-ing,how do I connect these,what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard,Git’s ready – what…
A game prototype a month, every month, for a year. Depending on how much you’ve worked on games, this either sounds totally doable, or completely impossible. It’s practically our very own game jam! Are we absolutely nuts? Yes, yes we…
On the ninth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… what a branching strategy? what’s this gitignore thing, push-ing, pull-ing, diff-ing,what is SSH-ing,how do I connect these,what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard,Git’s ready – what then,how do I…
On the eigth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… what’s this gitignore thing? push-ing, pull-ing, diff-ing, what is SSH-ing, how do I connect these, what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard, Git’s ready – what then, how do…
On the seventh day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… push-ing, pull-ing, diff-ing? what is SSH-ing, how do I connect these, what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard, Git’s ready – what then, how do I get Git set…
On the sixth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… what is SSH-ing? how do I connect these, what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard, Git’s ready – what then, how do I get Git set up, and could…