Busy with the iOS class

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Issam

I am half done with the iOS stanford iTunes course. I learned a lot of stuff up to now, and I hope that once I am done I can start posting more. Right now most of my free time is going to watching the videos and doing the assignment. I am really impress by the course, the video are kind of slow for people that know already how to program but they covert the material well so it’s not bad. I highly recommend to take the courses if you want to learn how to do iOS programming correctly.

iOS course, assignment 1 done :)

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Issam

So this was really a simple assignment, the goal was to make an simple RPN calculator. It was nothing really new yet, but it allowed me to learn how to use XCode 4 better and a few basic things about Objective C that I did not know. (the description method for example)

iTunes University

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Issam

I am going to try to do the “iPad and iPhone App Development (Fall 2011)” course from Stanford. I think it might be useful to learn the basic of iOS, up to now I mostly learned as I want. Let’s see how it goes

Also the new iTunes University iPad app is not bad.

Finished playing MW3

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Issam

I played the single player campaign of MW3 this weekend. I really liked it, it was short and entertaining. I was just disappointed by the ending, it felt rushed.

Unity resources subfolders

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Issam

You can use resources folder in unity to load assets from scripts (unity script references).

You can create resources folder anywhere in your project, but you can also create subfolder in your resources folder allowing you to keep a cleaner folder structure.

For example we have the following subfolder structure:

We can use the following code to load our level data text file:

TextAsset levelData = (TextAsset) Resources.Load("LevelData/Level1") as TextAsset;

Using the gizmo feature in Unity

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Issam

From the Unity script reference for gizmos:

Gizmos are used to give visual debugging or setup aids in the scene view.

In our current game for example, the heroes movement are limited to a 2d grid that need to be placed in the scene. Using gizmos we can visualize our grid in the scene and make sure it’s aligned correctly with the world.

Click the picture to see a video of this in use

Continue reading to see some of the code

Drinking more coffee

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Issam

Last year I did not drink coffee now I have my own coffee maker at home, not sure if it’s a good thing or not

2011 Game Jams

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Issam

Click for more and to play all those games…

FancyBox + JQuery

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Issam

Well I learned how to use FancyBox in wordpress, that also required me to do a crash course in JQuery. Kind of not what I was expecting to do today, but at least I learned something I will try to do a post latter today that show all our 2011 gamejams games and maybe a quick tutorial of what I learned.