Multiplayer Games


Although the blog looks a bit abandoned, these have been very busy times in my ongoing search for game development Nirvana.  It is just hard to find the time to blog.  Time is a luxury.  My latest experiment involves taking baby steps into the world of multi-player games with Unity.  After finding out that you can have a free server in the Amazon cloud for a whole year and being motivated by my friend Luis to start hacking away together some small Unity game experiments together, I got it into my head that we should have our own multi-player game server.   I just finished putting together a game of 4 in line running on my home server.  It is not much to look at, but I have learned a lot in the process and hopefully that is just the beginning.  You can see the code running behind it in Github.  I have not published the code or assets for the Unity client yet.  Unity makes it particularly hard to do this unless you buy a very expensive license.  Oh well, that is the only real problem I have had with that otherwise wonderful game engine, so I will try not to complain.  Anyway, checkers are next!


In the last few months, while trying to resurrect my Alien Party game idea in Unity, I have practiced 3D modeling in Blender quite a lot.  And also got really involved in a newly formed local user group.  It has been great so far.  We have met a few times already and will try to keep getting together once a month.  If you are interested in 3D modeling and animation in Blender, stop by! I am teaching the newbie workshop.  I will take good care of you :)  


I will try to post more about the little multi-player games and my progress with Alien Party later.  Things are happening slowly, but they are happening.  It is tough going working on games at night, and there is so much to learn when you are doing it alone.  But it is all worth it.  My goal for the rest of the year is to put my work out there and start a proper collaboration with my friend Luis.  Just like me, he has a lot going on and not that much free time.  But we both look forward to working together.  It is something we have toyed with for too long. It is time to make it happen!