Non-Game Game Development: Wrap-Up Board To Bits Games 2026-09-17 | Non-Game Game Development: Wrap-Up
Procedural Buildings, Part 7B: Completing the Modular Settings Board To Bits Games 2019-09-13 | Implementing the strategy pattern for the remaining rules of our procedural building grammar.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 7: Modular Settings Board To Bits Games 2019-08-30 | Setting up the Roof generation as a scriptable object to customize and swap strategies.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 6: Basic Generation Settings Board To Bits Games 2019-08-16 | Setting up the Building Generator to take custom settings and eventually custom ScriptableObjects for generating different parts of the building grammar.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 5: Renderer Walkthrough Board To Bits Games 2019-08-02 | Renderer Script: drive.google.com/file/d/11EWrHOCFGv0gkax5cXwxupruKkTeSgpj/view?usp=sharingMedieval Asset Pack: https://kenney.nl/assets/medieval-town-baseComplete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 4: Project Classes and Basic Generation Board To Bits Games 2019-07-19 | Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 3: Using Grammars Board To Bits Games 2019-07-05 | An overview of grammars, how they work, and how we can use them in planning a procedural generator. Then, we'll build the grammar we'll use for our building in this project.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 2: Procedural Generation Basics Board To Bits Games 2019-06-21 | A shallow but broad dive into various procedural generation concepts, including what not to expect from procgen and some key decisions and tools at your disposal.A couple of influential resources from this video:Kate Compton's 10,000 Bowls of Oatmeal Post: galaxykate0.tumblr.com/post/139774965871/so-you-want-to-build-a-generatorRachel Hwang's Video on Buidlings from Grammars: youtube.com/watch?v=t-VUpX-xVo4Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Procedural Buildings, Part 1: Overview Board To Bits Games 2019-05-31 | In this series we'll look at procedural generation by implementing a building generator in Unity. We'll cover the fundamentals of procedural generation, along with Unity specific techniques and best practices.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Command Pattern in Unity, Part 4: Command Log Board To Bits Games 2019-05-17 | Extending the Command Pattern functionality to export a log of commands, which could be used for reference or loading sequences of actions at a later time.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Command Pattern in Unity, Part 3: Undo/Redo Functionality Board To Bits Games 2019-05-10 | Using the Command Pattern to enable players to undo and redo actions through the use of a command history.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Command Pattern in Unity, Part 2: Implementation Board To Bits Games 2019-05-03 | Implementing the command pattern for use in a Unity project, so that each action taken is encapsulated into a command object.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Command Pattern in Unity, Part 1: Overview Board To Bits Games 2019-04-26 | Introducing the concept of the command pattern, a way to treat actions or functions in your game like objects that can be logged, serialized, replayed and undone.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Unity Camera Controls, Part 3: Perspective Camera Zoom Board To Bits Games 2019-04-12 | Camera zooming with a perspective camera, which requires manipulation of the camera transform rather than camera component properties.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Unity Camera Controls, Part 2: Mouse Controls Board To Bits Games 2019-04-05 | Controlling the camera system with a mouse, including panning at screen edges and rotating/zooming with mouse buttons.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Unity Camera Controls, Part 1: Core Functionality Board To Bits Games 2019-03-29 | Developing a "birds-eye view" camera system, including movement, rotation and zooming, for functionality commonly seen in strategy and management games.This video covers orthographic perspective cameras and keyboard controls. Future videos will cover mouse controls and perspective camera zooming.Complete code will be released at the end of the series on GitHub, or become a Patreon supporter for instant access.Building models can be found at http://kenney.nlSupport Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsMusic by Priscilla Snow http://ghoulnoise.com
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 9: Avoiding Obstacles Board To Bits Games 2019-03-15 | Using filtering to selectively avoid objects for more realistic behavior in an environment with other objects in it.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 8: Filtering Neighbors Board To Bits Games 2019-03-08 | Identifying friend vs foe, or at least members of your own flock, through filtering.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 7: Keeping Agents on Screen Board To Bits Games 2019-03-01 | A new behavior to help prevent our flock agents from wandering out of view.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 6: Composite Behavior Custom Editor Board To Bits Games 2019-02-22 | Making it easier to manage our behaviors and weights with a custom editor.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 5B: Steered Cohesion Behavior Board To Bits Games 2019-02-15 | Improving on our cohesion code to avoid sudden directional changes, causing “jerky” movements in agents.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 5: Composite Behaviors Board To Bits Games 2019-02-15 | Implementing a behavior object that can take in and iterate through other behaviors, returning a combination of those results and weighting them as desired.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 4: Core Flock Behaviors Board To Bits Games 2019-02-08 | Implementing the 3 core flocking behaviors: cohesion, alignment and avoidance. Setting up scriptableobject assets for the three behaviors so we can apply them to a composite behavior (next video!).Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 3: Iterating & Finding Neighbors Board To Bits Games 2019-02-01 | Using our flock object to iterate over flock agents and find their neighbors via Unity's physics system.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 2: Flock Setup Board To Bits Games 2019-01-25 | It's time to load up Unity and start implementing our flocking algorithm. In this video, we'll create the 3 core classes for the algorithm, and set up our flock agent and flock objects to initialize our scene.Flock Agent Sprite link: drive.google.com/file/d/1oJErPdupQyogZQyNR--TNUANXaJ_OV9y/view?usp=sharingComplete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Flocking Algorithm in Unity, Part 1: Introduction Board To Bits Games 2019-01-18 | Starting a new series on implementing a version of Craig Reynold's flocking algorithm in Unity, with the added benefit of modular behaviors that we can mix and match, and customize our flock behaviors.In this video, we go over the basics of what a flocking algorithm is, and how we'll be building it.Complete code available on GitHub at github.com/boardtobits/flocking-algorithmBecome a Patreon backer for full project access.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Cubes - Zero Gameplay Release Trailer Board To Bits Games 2019-01-11 | Release Trailer for Cubes with an overview of this virtual reality-focused puzzle game, now out of Early Access and available on Steam.Buy now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/786110/Cubes
Entity Component System Overview in 7 Minutes Board To Bits Games 2019-01-04 | A discussion of the fundamentals and implementation of entity-component-system architecture, and how it might impact your game development as Unity rolls out ECS.I'm told that knowing is half the battle.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Building a Time Control System in Unity Board To Bits Games 2018-12-28 | Learn how to set up a system to manipulate the speed of simulations or turn-based games, including pause, step forward, play and fast forward controls.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 12: Optimizing and Refactoring Board To Bits Games 2018-12-21 | Fixing some of the hard-coding we did in the early videos to make our system more flexible and easier to add new units.Final code & project package on GitHub: github.com/boardtobits/systemic-gameSupport Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 11: Balance Iteration Phase Board To Bits Games 2018-12-14 | Using the knowledge gained from the last video, we can being adjusting and testing our system to try and solve the extinction problem in our forest.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 10: Balance Planning Phase Board To Bits Games 2018-12-07 | Looking at the math and turn-by-turn events of our forest system to determine how best to balance it.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 9: 2 Ways to Balance a System Board To Bits Games 2018-11-30 | Our forest keeps dying out, which means we need to balance our system's settings. In this video, we'll discuss two approaches to successfully balancing a system.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Making a News Ticker with Unitys UI System Board To Bits Games 2018-11-23 | Learn to make a simple news ticker that scrolls text along the bottom of the screen and which can be dynamically populated with messages.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
3 Ways to Make Complex Strings Board To Bits Games 2018-11-16 | In the midst of school projects, a quick video this week covering 3 ways make strings out of various pieces of data. Nothing glamorous or earth shattering, but it might just help you avoid a few errors in your console!Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 8: Food Chain System Board To Bits Games 2018-11-09 | Implementing the final interaction in our simple forest system: Eating when hungry. Units will determine if they are hungry, then request a unit of their preferred food type from the Forest System in a hybrid action (central and distributed).Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 7: Distributed Systems Board To Bits Games 2018-11-02 | Life is getting too easy for our forest creatures, so let's implement hunger. Unlike our multiply check, hunger logic will be handled within each individual unit, as a distributed system.This will lead into our final system, a hybrid of centralized and distributed, when units eat.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 6: Centralized System Control Board To Bits Games 2018-10-26 | Setting up a centralized control scheme for checking if units multiply each "tick" of our system.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 5: Setting Our System In Motion Board To Bits Games 2018-10-19 | A bit of preparation in the game scene, followed by working with coroutines to create a dynamic "timeline" where our units can take action.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 4: Initializing Units Board To Bits Games 2018-10-12 | Now that more details available from the overarching system, we can fully initialize our units with both profile information as well as some instructions to help organize and identify our units within the scene hierarchy.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 3: System Setup Board To Bits Games 2018-10-05 | With our units at least partially defined, we can set up the system that will use those units. This video covers establishing the variables that will help populate the system, along with the initial setup method that will be called at the start of the session.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 2: Unit Profiles Board To Bits Games 2018-09-28 | In this video, we'll set up our Grass, Rabbits and Wolves. Or rather, we set up the templates for each which will be implemented in our system. Setting up scriptable objects and translating our system "adjectives" into Boolean flags.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Games Tutorial, Part 1: Design (and Disclaimers) Board To Bits Games 2018-09-21 | We've been talking about how systemic games work, now let's make a system. In this first video we'll design a simple system for a game, and discuss the scope of the project.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Game Design, Part 5: What Games Work Well With Systems? Board To Bits Games 2018-09-14 | Is systemic design right for your game? Not every game benefits from systems, but some mechanics and genres tend to do very well with them. Here is a small sample of system-friendly game styles that can help you decide whether to incorporate systems into your own game. Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Played to Bits: Resource Systems in No Mans Sky Board To Bits Games 2018-09-07 | *Apologies in advance for the poor video quality at times*A brief look at some of the basic survival systems of No Man's Sky, and how they relate to systemic feedback loops as described in our recent Systemic Game Design video.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Game Design, Part 4: What Makes a System Good? Board To Bits Games 2018-08-31 | What makes a system engaging or work well within a game? In this video, we'll look at how to maintain a variety of outcomes without feeling chaotic, and how to plan a system that supports interaction across multiple subsystems.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Game Design, Part 3: What is a Systemic Game? Board To Bits Games 2018-08-24 | With a handle on systems and what they do, what defines a game as systemic vs. not? We'll look at four factors that go into games we commonly think of as having systemic designs.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Game Design, Appendix: Emergence in Conways Game Of Life Board To Bits Games 2018-08-17 | Cut from the Part 2 for time and focus, but a good example of emergence coming out of a very simple set of systems.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Game Design, Part 2: What Do Systems Do? Board To Bits Games 2018-08-10 | Defining game systems from another angle. An examination of simulation and emergence as a result of game systems.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Systemic Game Design, Part 1: What are Systems? Board To Bits Games 2018-08-03 | Kicking off a set of videos on systemic game design by trying to define what systems are, or if that is even the right question to be asking.Find more great talks on systemic game design here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5KbKbJ6Gf9-SXDTilJyqGCrJ8OyL-aSfSupport Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
Snapshot Tutorial Part 3: Applying Filter Effects Board To Bits Games 2018-07-27 | Applying image effects to our snapshot camera using Unity's Post-Processing Stack. Useful for app-style filters or simply to add an in-world effect to your camera view.Support Board to Bits on Patreon:http://patreon.com/boardtobitsCheck out Board To Bits on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoardToBits
