{"id":2394,"date":"2019-02-04T00:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T05:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2019-02-04T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T05:26:18","slug":"looking-at-building-a-simple-game-with-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2019\/02\/04\/looking-at-building-a-simple-game-with-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at building a simple game with unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m looking at building a game similar to stellar conquest (without borrowing any copyrighted content) using unity and then setting up a multiplayer capability through an internet connection (likely my hosting with some PHP persisting moves to a MySQL database).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve got the basics figured out for laying out the playing surface and it looks as if prefabs work for creating stars, planets and ships. I can see how the player interface would work in VR (either room scale or three axis) but I’m going to have to dig in to work out hit-testing for on-screen mouse activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to be thinking about how to handle star generation. The game that is providing the inspiration used a fixed map with the star located at mostly symmetrical positions. I’m inclined to have my game place the stars using a random number generator but with a defined distribution of star types to ensure some level of balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to do the same sort of thing for planets…not cards from a deck as with the board game but again, randomized with appropriate probabilities to yield the right sorts of planet mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the next step is probably to build the star cluster and scatter some colored lights about through space…I’m really tempted to go with a three dimensional star cluster for the final version if VR is the main target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m looking at building a game similar to stellar conquest (without borrowing any copyrighted content) using unity and then setting up a multiplayer capability through an internet connection (likely my hosting with some PHP persisting moves to a MySQL database). I’ve got the basics figured out for laying out the playing surface and it looks … Continue reading Looking at building a simple game with unity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,2,22,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-topics","category-projects","category-sandbox","category-unity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-CC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}