Author: Taro Omiya
-
Thoughts on Unreal 5 Reveal So Far
Been thinking about the latest Unreal 5 game engine reveal. In particular, since I work as an independent game develop and gameplay programmer, the things I tend to seek for in a new game engine is what features it provides, and with it, what cool game mechanics and systems I could implement. From that perspective,…
-
#WeeklyGameMusic: Toad Café (Paper Mario: Color Splash)
Ah, yes, time to return to the good old classic Italian plumber in this week’s #WeeklyGameMusic. This time, let’s chill with the Toad Café theme, composed by Takeru Kanazaki, Shigemitsu Goto, and Fumihiro Isobe. The track is from…*shuffle, shuffle*…uhhh…the fan-disapproved game, Paper Mario: Color Splash, developed by Fire Emblem series game, Intelligent Systems? Before, uh,…
-
#WeeklyGameMusic: Lone Survivor (Lone Survivor)
It’s been a couple of weeks now since you’ve locked down in your own apartment. How long can you go like this? To ease your mind, you turn on your favorite music collection, “#WeeklyGameMusic.” Superflat Games’ melancholic theme song for their game, Lone Survivor, plays. A fitting theme by composer and game designer, Jasper Byrne.…
-
#WeeklyGameMusic: The Sims Theme (Junkie XL Remix) (The Sims 2: Nightlife)
Going back a little into retro classics, this week’s #WeeklyGameMusic highlights Junkie XL again with The Sims Theme, composed for Maxis’ The Sims 2: Nightlife. Continuing off the ever-popular The Sims series, The Sims 2: Nightlife is the second expansion to The Sims 2. Much like the prior games, the game allows the player to…
-
How to Split Up an Existing Unity Git Project into Smaller Unity Packages
Update 4/29/2020: indicated new dependencies added in Template Unity Package under Step 8 that should be left in the asmdef files. After years of making a ton of Unity games, I’ve accumulated a lot of tools that are gathered into a single Template Unity Project that I start every game jam project in. That said,…
-
#WeeklyGameMusic: MNN+@0・ (Xenoblade Chronicles X)
#WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. Time to talk about a track that is frankly very difficult to spell. I’m talking, of course, about MNN+@0・, composed by Hiroyuki Sawano of Attack of the Titans fame. This is probably one of his early music debut in video game context; too bad it was introduced in the ill-fated…