2D Platformer – build 004
A main menu! And a pause menu! (press escape). It’s very ugly, only works with a mouse, and the options don’t actually do anything…
Continue reading2D Platformer – build 003
Not much to see here. I added more physics tweaks and experimenting with an alternative jump method. I also improved some behaviour when using a controller, e.g. better analogue stick input.
Continue reading2D Platformer – build 002
Making a platformer character “feel” good is tough. It requires lots of tweaking, and you can’t always rely on using Unity’s physics engine to handle things for you — platformer game physics doesn’t really behave behave like real world physics! This build adds a DevTools panel for easier in-game balance tweaking, so I can customise, at runtime, some of the custom physics I created.
Continue reading2D Platformer – build 001
I’ve always liked playing 2D platformers, and a simple platformer seems like a good genre to continue my learning. So this will be my second gamedev project.
Continue readingYay, my first game!
Here’s my first game. It’s technically a game; it has user input and some challenge to overcome.
Continue readingHide pages from Hugo generated sitemap
Want ‘hidden’ pages? Override Hugo’s default sitemap.xml behaviour by making your own sitemap.xml file inside layouts/_default/.
Open external links in new tab with Goldmark markdown renderer in Hugo
Goldmark doesn’t have this feature by default, but it’s easy to add.
Continue readingUse a custom 404 page for Azure Static Web Apps
404’s on Azure Static Web Apps give an Azure branded page. Here’s how to change that behaviour and tell Azure to serve your custom 404.html.
Continue readingMake a free, performant and scalable personal website using Hugo, a static site generator
I want a personal blog site. I want it to be performant, scalable, easy to maintain, and free… I’m not asking too much right? Well it turns out static site generators make this completely possible! This post is about how I configured this very website. Follow along if you’d like to make your own site like this one.
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